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28 years old, had a heart attack last weekend (inferior STEMi)

I exercise an hour a day (resistance + cardio), eat a diet of nothing but meat + vegetables + yogurt.

Will post my lipids below. Sometimes you just get fucked by life.

https://i.imgur.com/r0nfUo3.png

For those that won't view the image:

  LDL: 72
  HDL: 23
  Triglycerides: 49
  Apo(B): 85

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Glad you're still with us! (And that you're seeing a cardiologist soon.)

Glad you're still with us, mate.

Was a hypothetical cause ever suggested?

I had vulnerable plaque rupture in an inferior artery that caused a 99% occlusion after thrombus formed over it

Very genetically predisposed to cardiac events unfortunately

Good luck to you, hope you keep on top of it. Do you know if you have high lp(a) out o curiosity? Curious what drives these events in cases such as yours.

I will soon, as a follow up from cardiologist.

My money is on it being within normal limits.

  > Curious what drives these events in cases such as yours.

In my case, I got dealt a very, very poor set of cardiac genes. Everyone on my mother's side has had at least one heart attack, though they generally started around age 50.

Lp(a) = 22.2ng nmol/L

Thanks for getting back to me! Doesn’t look like it’s likely to be that then.

Good luck to you, hope you keep on top of it!

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