Good health, youth no longer provide immunity from heart disease

"Healthy young adults are not really immune from heart disease; they are likely to carry a higher risk of cardiac complications over their lifetimes, according to new findings. The findings suggest that traditional methods of identifying heart disease risk might not adequately identify patients who actually have a higher lifetime risk. "We found that about half of individuals who are 50 years of age or younger and at low short-term risk for heart disease may not remain at low risk throughout their lives," said Jarett Berry, assistant professor of internal medicine at University of Texas Southwestern and co-author of the study." - NewKerala