Risk of myocardial infarction and sport

A heart attack is the necrosis or death of the cells of an organ, or part of it, due to a lack of blood supply. Although a heart attack can occur in any organ, we commonly call acute myocardial infarction, which is the heart muscle, a heart attack. The lack of irrigation that causes a heart attack is caused by the narrowing of the arteries (stenosis) that prevents oxygen from reaching the myocardium, mainly due to a blood clot or atherosclerosis, among other reasons. The consequence is tissue necrosis. Some risk factors that can obstruct the coronary arteries are hypertension, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle or advanced age. As for genetics, it has been observed that physically active women with a particular variant in the LPL gene enjoy a protective effect against myocardial infarction.