A heart attack significantly increases the risk of developing other diseases – scientists – News

A heart attack significantly increases the risk of developing other serious diseases, including kidney failure and diabetes.

According to a study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, patients who had a heart attack developed subsequent diseases much more often than people of the same age and sex who did not have one, writes Medical Xpress.

Scientists from the University of Leeds analyzed more than 145 million records of about 35 million adult patients hospitalized over a nine-year period.

Among them, more than 430,000 people suffered a heart attack for the first time. The average age of patients with a heart attack was 67 years. 66% of patients were men.

The researchers concluded that heart attacks can have health consequences for patients, including causing conditions that affect the heart and circulatory system, as well as causing mental disorders.

In particular, almost a third of these patients developed heart or kidney failure. For comparison, in people who did not have a history of a heart attack, such ailments occurred much less often:

• heart failure – 9.8%;

• kidney failure – 19.8%.

Also, approximately 22.3% of people from the study group developed atrial fibrillation, 7% had subsequent heart attacks, and 17% of people were hospitalized with diabetes.

Heart failure, atrial fibrillation, stroke, peripheral artery disease, bleeding, kidney failure, type 2 diabetes, and depression were more common in people who had a heart attack.

Hospitalization records also indicate that depression occurred in 8.9% of people after a heart attack. Women were more likely to develop depression after a heart attack than men.

This was especially true for those who suffered a heart attack at a younger age. 21.5% of women under 40 at the time of heart attack had a record of hospitalization for depression, compared with 11.5% of men in the same age group.

Unlike other health effects, cancer was less pronounced in the study group than in the control group. About 13.5% of people in the study group developed cancer after a heart attack, and in the control group this figure was 21.5%.

In general, 38% of the studied group died of any cause during the nine-year study period.

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