Smoking 15 cigarettes a day may increase the risk of myocardial infarction.
Myocardial infarction is a common acute cardiovascular disease that results in ischemic necrosis of the heart muscle due to the interruption of blood flow by occlusion of the major blood vessels supplying blood flow to the heart. Smoking cigarettes or prolonged exposure to secondhand smoke is one of the important risk factors in myocardial infarction; therefore, smoking 15 cigarettes a day may increase the risk of myocardial infarction.
Since tobacco contains a variety of harmful chemicals, such as nicotine, tar, a variety of cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. And long-term inhalation of tobacco combustion gas and tar particles produced by toxins can make the oxygen-carrying function of hemoglobin reduced, resulting in myocardial ischemia, causing the heart coronary artery spasm, contraction, etc., thus increasing the risk of myocardial infarction.
In addition, obesity, lack of exercise and excessive emotional stress may increase the risk of myocardial infarction. Myocardial infarction patients in strict compliance with the doctor’s prescription medication at the same time, daily also need to quit smoking or avoid second-hand smoke, avoid high-fat, high-cholesterol, high-sugar food and regular review, active treatment of coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus and other underlying diseases.
Smoking is harmful to health and should be stopped as soon as possible.