Is it true that heart attacks are more related to blood pressure than age?

Question

does a 20 year old with high blood pressure have a greater chance of a heart attack than a 90 year old with great blood pressure?

Answer 1

Not necessarily...other factors such as diet,exercise, cholesterol and hereditary play major factors. I have had high blood pressure since my twenties...my grandmother is 96 yrs old and also has high blood pressure. Taking care of yourself is the major factor....low sodium...no smoking...exercise...etc.

Answer 2

Most certainly yes.
This is because the pressures measured at the brachial artery (near the elbow) are a much more accurate reflection of the pressures generated by the heart, in an older person, with sclerotic aorta and arteries, than it is for a young person, whose aorta and upper arteries absorb a huge fraction of the pressure during the passage of the "pulse pressure wave" downstream. This reduces the APPARENT pressures measured by doctors.
So, a high B/P in a young person, with highly elastic blood vessels, is evidence of a vastly higher generated pressure within the left ventricle, than the same figures would in an older person. It is therefore much more dangerous, and more likely to cause rupture of large or small blood vessels.

Answer 3

Yes more to blood pressure,but there are so many other things that factor in. Clogged arteries, diet including fats,sodium, hereditary factors heart attacks from parents and grand parents,cholesterol amounts,I know people intheir high 90's that are still going strong and they smoked for 60 plus yrs, and I knew people who died in their 40's with their 1st heart attack. Hubby has had 3 major heart attacks,has a pacemaker,and a defibrillator in his chest,he sticks to a strict diet doesn't smoke,sees his cardiologist once a month and takes 25 pills per day that get switched monthly due to side effects,his blood pressure is so low that they give him something to raise it, and yes high bp can lead to strokes and heart attacks.

Answer 4

The chances of 20 years boy is less as compared to 90 years which increases by 10 % with every decade of life. So chances of hypertension is more in 90 years old fellow.
Additional information:
A 90 years old man has more collaterals arteries / arterioles, the chances of him coming out alive are more as compared to a young 20 years person, as he no collateral blood supply.
Hope answered your question.
< I am a doctor>

Answer 5

probaly about the same chance because of how old the man is compared to the bad blood pressure of the young man

Answer 6

Yes!