Heart disease is fast becoming a young person's condition.
Once viewed as a health concern for the middle-aged and elderly, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now increasingly affecting people under the age of 40 including in Kenya.
Global and local data show a worrying rise in heart-related complications among the youth, a trend linked not to family history but largely to changes in lifestyle, diet and stress.
According to a 2023 study published in The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, almost one in five heart attacks in urban populations are now occurring in people aged 25 to 39.
