Trends in Heart Disease Affected by Productive Age: This is the Explanation of Health Experts at UM Surabaya

• 07 Jan
• 2022

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Trends in Heart Disease Affected by Productive Age: This is the Explanation of Health Experts at UM Surabaya

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• By Uswah Sahal
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Coronary heart disease is still the number one killer in the world and causes 18.6 million deaths per year. This number is increasing not only in old age but also attacking productive age. This is because unhealthy lifestyles have started since school age.

Muhammad Perdana Airlangga, a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine (FK) UM Surabaya, who is also a cardiologist, explained that unhealthy lifestyles include smoking, the habit of consuming fast food, obesity and low physical activity.

"There is a case of a patient who has had a heart attack and has had a ring installed at the age of 28 and it turns out that he has a habit of smoking 1 pack a day since he was 6 years old," said Angga, Tuesday (7/6/22)

According to him, the symptoms that often appear are left chest pain and shortness of breath. Usually sufferers perceive it as a sitting wind so that when they come to the hospital complications arise.

"The principle of treating a heart attack is "time is muscle", which means that every minute of delay in treatment, the heart muscle will be deprived of oxygen so that the heart muscle will gradually stop functioning," he added.

Furthermore, he emphasized that preventive efforts to prevent heart attacks from occurring in the productive age need to be carried out because more serious impacts will occur such as sudden death, decreased productivity and psychological sufferers due to decreased heart function.

The promotive approach model in the 4.0 era needs to be applied to the younger generation, especially generation Z, for example implementing very limited smoke-free zones, collaborating with influencers for healthy living campaigns on social media and many other innovations.

"In addition, there is a need for screening at productive age where a family history of chronic disease and a history of sudden death is obtained, and an increase in emergency heart facilities at hospitals in each area so that there is no delay in handling a heart attack which results in death and disability," he concluded.