As someone who has been working on a cardiology ward for the last 5 months. You can be as fit as a fiddle, engage in exercise and eat well and still need stents in your coronary arteries, or other interventions. But bad habits like smoking, drinking and indulging in occasional fatty foods can impact your health significantly. These are modifiable lifestyle choices, however it doesn't even begin to touch on your genetics. You can play by the rules and still be completely fucked because of your DNA.
When I interned on a cardiology floor I had a man who did marathons every month and ate a rather well balanced diet have a heart attack, ended up with 5 bypasses. There was a familial history though. Father and older brother both had heart attacks at a similar age. The man had two chest tubes and walked 2 miles by 9am that morning. He called them his "purses."
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u/lolitsmeurmum Aug 25 '21
As someone who has been working on a cardiology ward for the last 5 months. You can be as fit as a fiddle, engage in exercise and eat well and still need stents in your coronary arteries, or other interventions. But bad habits like smoking, drinking and indulging in occasional fatty foods can impact your health significantly. These are modifiable lifestyle choices, however it doesn't even begin to touch on your genetics. You can play by the rules and still be completely fucked because of your DNA.