{"id":180517,"date":"2026-03-06T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180517\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T09:15:59","slug":"mens-risk-of-heart-disease-rises-at-age-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/180517\/","title":{"rendered":"Men’s risk of heart disease rises at age 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0New research from the Journal of the American Heart Association<\/a> suggests the risk for men to start developing cardiovascular disease increases starting at around age 35 \u2014 10 years earlier than for women.<\/p>\n

What You Need To Know<\/p>\n

Men at higher risk than women of developing heart disease sooner, according to the\u00a0Journal of the American Heart Association<\/a>
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At 35 years old, men\u2019s risk rises faster, according to the research
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Doctors say information encourages earlier intervention<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a 10-year discrepancy, particularly during the time that the women are pre-menopausal, where the hormonal balance is completely different, where they are protected by their hormones for developing heart disease, particularly, coronary artery disease where certainly men are not,\u201d said Dr. Ioana Dumitru, director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at Tampa General Hospital<\/a>. She added that other risk factors can include, weight, activity level and smoking and drinking.<\/p>\n

Doctors say the new information encourages earlier intervention.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a very important study that will change practice,\u201d said Dr. Lucian Lozonschi, director and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at THG and USF Health. \u201cI think we need to increase the awareness that it\u2019s not age 40 or 50 when we need to start screening men and women for their cardiovascular disease but much earlier in 20\u2019s and 30\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

41-year-old heart patient Eric Young agrees that more awareness is needed for the younger generation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started feeling sick,\u201d said Young, recalling a health scare in May 2024. \u201cI got diagnosed with pneumonia from one place. And then, you know, then they told me that it wasn’t pneumonia and I was in end-stage heart failure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The then 40-year-old was otherwise healthy and had no family history of heart disease. He faced more than a month in the hospital at TGH, emergency procedures and the possibility of a heart transplant. A left ventricular assist device, or LVAD was implanted in Eric\u2019s chest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a pump that was connected to the bottom of my left ventricle that pumped blood throughout my body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For a year and a half, the LVAD supported Young’s heart. Lozonschi removed the device, marking a rare recovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s only about one to two percent in the U.S.,\u201d said Lozonschi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the reason why I\u2019m here,\u201d Young said of the device. He remains on heart medication.<\/p>\n

His outcome is encouraging to doctors for more patients to recover. And while his case was a viral condition, it\u2019s his age group that is at higher risk of heart disease, encouraging more screening and increased awareness for younger men and women.<\/p>\n

A reminder from the American Heart Association<\/a> of risk factors, that include:<\/p>\n

Increasing age
\nSex
\nDiabetes
\nHigh blood pressure
\nHigh cholesterol
\nBeing overweight or obese
\nTobacco use<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0New research from the Journal of the American Heart Association suggests the risk for men to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3948,6466,274,28,571,6075,276,1187,115,139,135,137,136,278,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-180517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-app-health","9":"tag-app-latest-health-stories","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-health-and-medicine","14":"tag-hillsborough-county","15":"tag-melissa-eichman","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-tampa","19":"tag-tampa-headlines","20":"tag-tampa-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}