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The more shocking takeaway for me is that ~1% of people under 45 have had a heart attack (cannabis use is a rounding error)! That's higher than I would have gue
by dsizzle 5y ago
The more shocking takeaway for me is that ~1% of people under 45 have had a heart attack (cannabis use is a rounding error)! That's higher than I would have guessed.
- goldenkey 5y agoMore than 1% are fat slobs. So is it really surprising? The obesity prevalence was 40.0% among adults aged 20 to 39 years, 44.8% among adults aged 40 to 59 years, and 42.8% among adults aged 60 and older. (2021) https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
- dsizzle 5y agoI'm not sure the effect of obesity is that massive. Look at the curves in Fig 2 here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6503652/bin/VHRM-15-89-g0002.jpg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6503652/bin/VHR... From the text of that paper it looks like being obese ~doubles your risk at a given age, and it looks like age is the highest risk. It looks like the cumulative risk of being obese AND 80 puts your risk at about ~12% for having a heart attack. Hard to tell from that graph if the 45 year old data is consistent with the study in this paper or not.
- goldenkey 5y agoI would gander it is because the underlying reason is cardiovascular damage, not fat. But the two have a strong correlation. Even the tests for stenosis of arteries aren't very reliable or exact. If we had good stats for vascular obstruction and looked at that instead, it'd probably be even more depressing than the obesity stats, knowing the diet most people eat..