Eric Bristow would have been the first to admit that he was unlikely to make old bones, and it’s not just hard-living darts players who risk dying at an early age after a heart attack, as he did last week. The retired footballer Ray Wilkins died the day before Bristow and was, at 61, only a year older than him. At least one in ten heart attacks in the UK occurs before the age of 60, and in women that proportion rises to one in four. It is the state of your arteries, in particular your coronaries supplying the muscular heart wall, that determines your real age. Although deaths from heart attacks have…

Source: The Times April 09, 2018 16:00 UTC