Heart attacks and strokes are on the rise among young people, cntv.cn reports on Wednesday.

"He called me the night before he died. It's just unbelievable that he died this way. It is just so out of the blue." said Luo Guixing, whose colleague, surnamed Li, died unexpectedly in Nanning city on the evening of May 11, 2012.

The 35-year-old Li may have had a lifestyle that attributed to his sudden death. He worked at a construction site nine hours a day and smoked and drank regularly.

"People over 40 used to be the main sufferers of these types of death, but social pressure and the change in living habits are drawing more young people into this problem," explained Zheng Xiaofeng, a physician at Ruikang Hospital of Guangxi Traditional Chinese Medical University. Since January, 2012, more than fifty such cases have been received by the hospital.

Coronary problems and strokes are the prime reasons for these unexpected deaths. From January 1, 2012 to May 15, 2012, 1,973 people died of heart disease and 2,849 died of strokes in the Guangxi Autonomous Region. Young people accounted for a considerable number of these deaths.

Sun Hua, professor from the psychology department of the Hospital of Guangxi Medical University believes that pressure, smoking and drinking, and psychological problems all increase the rate of these types of death among young people.

A survey from Zhaopin.com, a leading Chinese job-hunting website, and Peking University involving 30,000 participants employed in China showed that the participants work 8.66 hours a day and sleep 7.33 with 20.5 leisure hours on the weekend. The time spent on physical exercise is less than one hour per week.

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