Nearly 80 per cent of people over 30 have a “heart age” older than their years Press AssociationMany Britons may be at risk of cardiac disease after a new study revealed that most people’s hearts were “older” than their chronological age. An online test to calculate a user’s risk of heart attack or stroke found that almost 80 per cent of people over 30 had a “heart age” older than their years. Cardiovascular disease causes more than a quarter of all deaths in the UK, about 155,000 people every year. The study published in the journal BMJ Open looked at 575,000 people who used the tool on the NHS Choices website. The research, funded by the British…

Source: The Times September 29, 2016 00:22 UTC