Health, Longevity & Biohacking
Surgeon says heart operations are increasingly common in 30- and 40-year-olds
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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""What has been most noticeable to me in my 25 year career as a heart surgeon? It's that I used to operate on 70 and 80 year olds, some 60 year olds. The 50 year olds were rare. Today I routinely operate on 40 year olds and it's not that unusual that I have a 30-year-old on my operating table these days.""
Ovadia says his case mix has shifted substantially younger over his career, from mostly patients in their 60s-80s to routine surgery on patients in their 40s and occasional patients in their 30s. He frames this as evidence of worsening metabolic health and prevention failures, rather than a lack of surgeons.
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