new delhi sumit and kaushal have a lot in common they both are in their twenties work on night shift have erratic food habits smoke and drink frequently and barely ever exercise but the similarity doesnt end there both the men aged 24 and 28 respectively had acute heart attack recently and had to be rushed to moolchand medicity hospital in south delhi while they were saved by timely medical intervention doctors were shocked to see such young people suffering from a lifethreatening condition known to affect people above 50 years this is the first time i have come across such young patients having acute heart attack what is more worrying is that they had no previous history of heart disease or the usual risk factors like diabetes and obesity it was clearly a result of the unhealthy lifestyle they had been leading for years said dr deepak natrajan director intervention cardiology at moolchand medicity sumit a resident of haryana who works in a bpo said he lives alone in delhi and used to eat out i have no family history of heart disease but i smoke a lot when i suffered the heart attack i was drinking with my friends at our room these habits could have brought it on he said after an emergency angioplasty in kaushals case the risk of death was higher as he suffered repeated cardiac arrests in the hospital after suffering from heart attack we had to give him four dc shocks for ventricular defibrillation after that an emergency angioplasty procedure which involves putting an stent to open up the artery was conducted he has been discharged said a doctor natrajan said smoking is the biggest risk factor for heart attacks among youngsters eight to 10 hours of a sedentary job without any physical exercise improper diet and alcohol intake increases the risk he said natrajan said recently we are seeing a lot of patients in the age group of 3040 years suffering from the condition the government must take initiatives to check this trendnames of the patients have been changed