Experts today clamped an alarm about a worrying increase in deadly heart failure.
Figures show deaths due to the situation – where the heart stops with pumps as it should – have almost tripled in the US in the last 50 years.
While fatalities of heart disease as a whole, including heart attacks, have been folded by two -thirds for the same period, deaths due to chronic heart conditions such as heart failure are now good for almost half of all cases.
For comparison: the figure was only nine percent half a century ago.
Nowadays, researchers suggested ‘important’ public health measures, including encouraging people to practice more, quit smoking and improved health controls in the heart can lie behind the overall fall.
But obesity and poor diet can also be partly the fault, especially for the rise among younger adults younger than 50, they said.
It is because this year research has repeatedly, sugary and additive loaded foods such as chips and sweets, can increase the risk of life -threatening heart problems.
In response, experts even called that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are removed from diets.
Additible loaded foods such as chips and sweets have been charged with their supposed risks for decades, with dozens of studies that link them to type 2 diabetes and other diseases
Although some warning signals are easy to recognize, such as serious chest pain, others are more vagient and difficult to locate
Dr. Sara King, an expert in heart health at Stanford University and Study Lead Author said: ‘This distribution shift in the types of heart disease that killed people of the most was very interesting.
‘This evolution in the past 50 years reflects incredible successes in the way in which heart attacks and other types of ischemic heart conditions are managed.
“The substantial increase in deaths due to other types of heart conditions, including heart failure and arrhythmias,, however, forms emerging challenges that the medical community must tackle.”
Symptoms of the incurable disorder, heart failure, include extreme breathlessness and life -wealthy fatigue, and only half of the patients live more than five years after their diagnosis.
It can be activated by a heart attack, blocked arteries and genetics, but obesity is considered an important engine in almost all cases.
It is thought that bags of fat accumulate around the internal organs, which releases inflammatory connections that damage the heart.
Separate research has shown that deaths due to heart failure have risen the fastest in adults under the age of 45 and between 45 to 64.
In the study, between 1970 and 2022, scientists assessed percentages of heart conditions by adults aged 25 and older in the US.
NHS data show an increase in the number of younger adults who have suffered from heart attacks in recent decade. The largest increase (95 percent) was registered in the 25-29-year-old demography, although since the number of patients is low, even small peaks can look dramatic
Writing in the Journal of the American Heart AssociationThey found the share of those who died due to a heart attack in this period had fallen 89 percent.
In 1970 the condition accounted for 54 percent of all deaths due to heart conditions. In 2022 this was only 29 percent.
But fatal victims of heart failure, arrhythmia and hypertensive heart disease rose by 146, 106 and 450 percent respectively.
They accounted for 47 percent of all deaths due to heart disease in 2022.
The deaths as a result of persistent high blood pressure also increased by 106 percent.
Factors such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and poor food choices – all of which have been raised over the past 50 years – may have contributed to this rise, the researchers claimed.
Professor Latha Palanippan, an expert in epidemiology and population Health at Stanford University and studies co-author, said: ‘All these risk factors contribute to a continuous burden of heart disease, especially as related to heart failure, hypertensive heart disorders and arythmies.
‘While the death of the heart attack has fallen by 90 percent since 1970, the heart conditions have not disappeared.
The Nova system, developed more than ten years ago by scientists in Brazil, splits food into four groups based on the amount of processing it has undergone. Unprocessed foods are fruit, vegetables, nuts, eggs and meat. Processed culinary ingredients – which are usually not only eaten – include oils, butter, sugar and salt
‘Now that people survive heart attacks, we see an increase in other forms of heart conditions such as heart failure.
“The focus must now be on helping people to be outdated with strong, healthy hearts by preventing events, and prevention can start in childhood.”
It comes as a new study last month that the consumption of just an extra 100 g upfs every day-roughly two packages chips the risk of life-threatening heart problems
In the study, researchers assessed 41 studies on North and South America, Europe, Asia and Oceania with 8,286,940 adults.
They discovered that every extra 100 g per day of UPF consumption was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events of 5.9 percent.
The findings presented at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 2025 Conference in Singapore, also showed that adults had a 14.5 percent higher risk of high blood pressure.
Last year, scientists discovered in the largest evidence analysis of evidence with 10 million people that those who ate most UPFs had between 40 and 66 percent increased the risk of dying in heart conditions.
In an accompanying editorial, academics from Sao Paolo, Brazil said: “In general, the authors discovered that diets with high ultra-processed food can be harmful to most-crime all-system systems.”
The umbrella term UPFS is used to cover everything that is made edible with colorings, sweeteners and preservatives that extend the shelf life.
Ready times, ice cream and tomato ketchup are some of the most popular examples of products that fall under the UPF term of the umbrella.
This is now synonymous with food that offers little nutritional value.
They are different from processed food, which have been tinkered to let them last longer or to improve their taste, such as salted meat, cheese and fresh bread.
The UK is the worst in Europe for eating UPFS, which make up an estimated 57 percent of the national diet.
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