Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 17-year-old High-school Girl.

Authors :: Kawaguchi S
Hasebe T
Ohta H
Kikuchi A
Asanome A
Nishiura T
Sakamoto N
Tanabe Y
Takeuchi T
Sato N
Kawamura Y
Hasebe N
Source :: Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) [Intern Med] 2021 Jan 15; Vol. 60 (2), pp. 259-263. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 12.
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: We report an unusual case of acute myocardial infarction in a high school girl. The patient was 17 years of age and had multiple coronary risk factors, including marked obesity with a body mass index (BMI) of 42.7 kg/m <superscript>2</superscript> , dyslipidemia and glucose intolerance. She had been an on and off smoker since she was 13 years of age. Due to the recent Westernization of the lifestyle, the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in the young generation has been increasing in Japan. Cardiovascular disease based on lifestyle-related diseases may become more common in young people.