Why There Has Been an Increase in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in Young People Over the Past Decade in the USA: Unrecognized Roles of Alcoholism, Drug Abuse, Illegal Migrants and Hypomagnesemia | Biomedgrid

Over the past decade, according to recent CDC mortality statistics, there is a growing number of cardiovascular deaths in the USA among young people (i.e. 16-55 years in age) [1]. This turn of events, among the younger people, is being attributed to obesity, type 2 diabetes, suicide, and bad diets, whereas the elderly population, i.e. those over age 70, appear to be living into their 90's. Several well- known supposedly, healthy Broadway and Hollywood actors below age 55 (e.g., Luke Perry, Brittany Murphy, Heather O'Rourke, Alex Haley, among others) died of heart attacks/cardiac arrest recently [1]. Among these deaths, in the younger people, there appear to be deaths caused by strokes, although a number have been attributed to congestive heart failure. All three, namely heart attacks, strokes and congestive heart failure, among men younger than 55 years of age, are unusual, despite many of these subjects being-on statins and high-blood pressure medications with normal or only slightly elevated triglyceride and cholesterol levels [1].