Financial strain and food insecurity are the strongest drivers of accelerated heart aging, researchers reported in the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings. The heart aging associated with money and food worries is similar to that caused by conventional risk factors like diabetes, high blood pressure and prior heart attack, researchers concluded. This aging increases people’s risk for heart disease and heart-related death, researchers said. Researchers concluded that social factors like financial strain, housing and lack of exercise can be used to predict a person’s risk of heart-related death, matching or surpassing conventional risk factors. SOURCE: Mayo Clinic, news release, Dec. 18, 2025What This Means For YouPeople should be aware that money worries could be aging their heart, increasing their risk of death.

Source: Daily Sun December 29, 2025 12:59 UTC