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No, these things just happen for a variety of reasons. Smoking/vaping puts you at higher risk. There's probably other risk factors too.
by epmaybe 5y ago
No, these things just happen for a variety of reasons. Smoking/vaping puts you at higher risk. There's probably other risk factors too.
- bocytron 5y agoYeah, if you're tall and thin as well. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950234/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2950234/
- Ovah 5y agoThe most common category is "primary spontaneous". Predominantly young (85% <40yo), healthy males (6 times more common). Smoking contributes, and I believe being tall and skinny does so as well.
- jacobmartin 5y agoShort and fat--never a smoker. Still collapsed my right one and then the left one a week later. The doctors said they'd never seen that (bilateral in such a short timespan with no apparent cause) and had no idea what could be causing it. I had to laugh. Pectoris Excavatus or other skeletal abnormalities can cause it but I don't have any of those either. Just luck of the draw I guess.