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Who gets heart attacks? And, in general you would think an elderly, overweight male who
smokes, that suffers a heart attack, and collapses and dies. But, in actuality, any man, especially
over the age of 40, any woman over the age of 50, and even younger and healthier people
can suffer heart attacks. In general people who are sedentary, overweight, have a bad
nutrition, and smoke, have a higher risk of suffering heart attack. Especially once they
develop other medical problems like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes.
And the ones that have a family history of heart attacks. If, your mother and father,
your grandfather and grandmother died early in life from a heart attack, that chances
are that you're genetically predisposed to also suffer heart attack. In those situations,
you need to follow up with your doctor and have annual physicals and discuss further
the risk factors that are unique to yourself. There are great resources on-line, in the
library, for you to do further research. Especially from the American Heart Association and medical
journals and so on.