teenage heart attacks
It seems days have gone away when heart attack was considered a threat reserved for elderly people with its constant foraying into the lives of teenagers.

It is true that heart attack among teenagers is quite rare. Still, take it for sure that it can strike even the adolescents without heart defects. This peculiar issue gained momentum after Drs. John R. Lane and Giora Ben-Shachar came out with a case, covering eight boys and one girl between the ages 12 to 20 years, who developed severe chest pains and met the criteria for a diagnosis of heart attack.

Deep check-up of these teenagers revealed both positive as well as negative outcomes, which goes like this:

Negative:

Eight of the patients had abnormal EKGs

All of them had abnormal cardiac enzyme levels

Three of the teenagers had abnormalities

Positive:

Check-ups revealed that heart attack among these teenagers had nothing to do with drug abuse, cholesterol levels and blood coagulation.

In the present scenario, it won’t be wrong to say that chest pain among teenagers should not be taken lightly, as consequences could be hazardous. However, the latest development sets forth a new debate that how far predictions based on latest technologies could be trusted, as medical examination of these teenagers, itself shows that tests for drug abuse, cholesterol levels, and blood coagulation rate were all negative.

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