Change It Soon, These Are The Habits Of Young People Who Can Trigger Heart Disease

JAKARTA - As times change, heart disease is now not only attacking the elderly, but also increasingly experienced by young people. The younger generation is now also a group that is prone to heart disease.

In recent years, doctors have seen this worrying shift, as more and more young people suffer from heart disease such as in their 20s to 30s.

"Heart disease does not occur overnight, but rather as a result of health changes that can start for years, even decades, before symptoms appear," said Cardiologist Dr. Eduardo Hernandez, quoted from The Texas Heart Institute, Monday, December 1, 2025.

"We saw patients in their 30s with severe plaque buildup in their arteries, something we used to see frequently in their parent generation," he added.

This phenomenon occurs in young people, because of their daily habits. Starting from unhealthy eating patterns, such as eating fast food too often, smoking, staying up late and poor sleep quality, lack of exercise, to chronic stress.

These habits have been carried out very often by young people today. Then other habits that are increasingly triggering heart disease at a young age are significant lifestyles or minimal lifestyle activities, which are characterized by mostly sitting all day long.

According to a study at JACC, the major journal American College of Cardiology, revealed that too much time spent sitting, leaning, or lying during the day, could increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and death.