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Young and at risk: Why heart disease is no longer just a problem for elderly
Smoking remains the biggest and most direct threat. Over 50 percent of the younger patients in the study were active smokers. But smoking in Kenya today doesn’t just mean cigarettes.
For decades, heart attacks and other serious heart conditions were thought to be the fate of the aging. They were illnesses we associated with retirement, old age, and decades of unhealthy living.
But that image is changing—and fast. More and more young people are now facing heart disease, with doctors across Kenya sounding the alarm.
