New data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics reveals a significant rise in heart attacks among young adults aged 18-40, with cases spiking dramatically in 2021 and continuing to rise through 2023.
The data shows a staggering 60% increase in heart attacks among young people compared to 2020. In 2019, only 0.3% of Americans aged 18-44 experienced a heart attack, but by 2022, this number had risen to 0.5%, representing a 66% increase over four years. Doctors are raising alarms over this troubling trend.
A similar trend in the UK has ‘experts’ there baffled.
Dr. Deepak Bhatt, Director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital, noted, “There are definitely more younger people coming in with heart attacks. There’s data to back that up. What’s driving that is more controversial.”
Traditionally, heart attacks have been linked to factors like drug use, obesity, and poor diet.
However, a growing number of medical professionals are pointing to the Covid pandemic—and more specifically, the mRNA gene therapies (marketed to the public as ‘vaccines’) — as possible contributors to the rise. Dr. Laxmi Mehta, Director of Preventative Cardiology at The Ohio State University, commented, “It is alarming that younger people don’t feel that they’re at risk for heart disease, but it’s not surprising. Most young people think heart disease only happens in old people, but that’s not the case.”
Studies show a sharp increase in heart complications in young people since the rollout of Covid vaccines. Dr. Susan Cheng, a cardiologist at Cedars Sinai, found in a 2023 study that heart attack deaths in individuals aged 25-44 rose by nearly 30% after mRNA vaccines were introduced. “Young people are obviously not really supposed to die of a heart attack,” Cheng said. “They’re not really supposed to have heart attacks at all.”
Further, a recent large-scale study from the University of Oxford confirmed that myocarditis and pericarditis—forms of heart inflammation—occur exclusively in vaccinated children and adolescents, not in those infected with Covid-19. The researchers found no deaths from the virus in the subject group, underlining the rarity of severe illness among young people while highlighting the concerning vaccine-related risks.
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