{"id":496310,"date":"2026-02-28T21:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:44:10","slug":"why-heart-attacks-are-striking-gym-goers-in-their-30s-40s-and-50s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496310\/","title":{"rendered":"Why heart attacks are striking gym-goers in their 30s, 40s and 50s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/128878645.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/toi-plus\/author-latamishra-479216575\" class=\"BGiqL\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lata Mishra<\/a>TIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Feb 28, 2026, 18:51 IST IST<\/p>\n<p>The long-held belief that regular exercise works like an insurance policy against heart attacks is now being questioned by a growing number of cardiac events among seemingly healthy Indians in their 30s, 40s and 50s.<br \/>In recent years, India has witnessed a string of sudden deaths \u2014 on treadmills, badminton courts, during marathons, at gyms, even at social gatherings. Several of these cases, covered by TOI+, involved individuals who did not lead a sedentary lifestyle, were not visibly overweight, and had no prior diagnosis of heart disease. The shock lay in the contrast: they appeared fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lata MishraTIMESOFINDIA.COMUpdated: Feb 28, 2026, 18:51 IST IST The long-held belief that regular exercise works like an insurance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[28431,97,15520,271],"class_list":{"0":"post-496310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-cardiac-arrest","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-heart-attack","11":"tag-life"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}