How could children suffer heart attacks and similar coronary diseases?

Question

I'm wondering how could children- and I mean children under 18- suffer heart attacks and similar coronary diseases. The question came to me after hearing that heart disease can strike- and often kill- children, which could be a saddening loss in families. I've heard about it in advertising on the American Heart Association (correct?). Until recently, I thought heart attacks only happen to adults. So....can you tell me how could children suffer heart attacks and similar coronary diseases?

Answer 1

I have a 9 year old son who has a IGA Nephropathy which is a conditon of filtering units in kidneys. He has high blood pressure as a result and we have to be careful because sometimes his blood pressure gets very high and essentially he very well could have a heart attack or stroke from this. And by the way, he is not obese. He's quite the opposite. He is anorexic according to his pediatricians.

Answer 2

Hi Eric. There is a congenital gene defect that leads to severe elevation of homocysteine in the blood and urine (the condition is called Homocystenuria) that causes early death (in childhood or teens) by heart attacks or strokes in its victims. Treatment usually requires high doses of pyridoxine (vitamin B6) to lower the homocsyteine levels.

Answer 3

Yes. You've seen animals with genetic diseases (two headed snakes and cows, mutant frogs, etc) Scientists study lab animals with (human) diseases all the time: rabbits with eye cancer, mice with messed up hypothalami and can't stop eating; just about any human disease scientists study can be found in an animal. (that's how they study them). One time we caught a vole in our yard and we put it in a goldfish bowl, and it died of a heart attack overnight. Quite sad in the morning. You just don't hear about it, because like a lot of people don't know they have cancer until there's a visible sign, people don't catch these problems with their pets until they die. And vets don't give cats mamograms, or give hamsters iodine shakes on visits. And then people don't have an autotopsy on dead Rover. they just say, yep, he's dead and get rid of the body.

Answer 4

it is sad to hear =our life styles have changed so much and even babies are being fed fat foods =on the other hand some kids are born with a heart problems and then again they have served their purpose here on earth and God wants them back home with him

Answer 5

Fast food and sedentary lifestyle

Answer 6

Junk food and genetics.