It actually takes about 20 years to build up enough plague in a person's arteries to cause a person to have clogged arteries. A person your age CAN have a heart attack IF they suffer fronm certain forms of heart disease. My daughter had her first heart attack at the age of 12 and continued to have heart attacks up to the time she had a transplant.
one of my very good nurse friends told me that nowadays age is not such a huge factor in heart disease as it has been in the past because of the rising percentage of heart related problems in young people.
Heart attack is such a misused term. It is a myocardial infarction (death of heart muscle) caused by coronary artery disease. Someone your age will not have clogged arteries....