Your Risk of Heart Disease In Riverside CA
Your Risk of Heart Disease
How to Turn Back the Clock When Your Blood Vessels Grow Old Before You Do
By RON WINSLOW
"A man is as old as his arteries."
–Thomas Sydenham, English physician, 1624-1689
This comment, made nearly four centuries ago, raises a provocative modern-day question: Do you know how old your arteries are?
It is a question gaining increasing attention as researchers look for more effective ways to communicate risk of cardiovascular disease to patients and to motivate them to make changes in their lives that can help prevent heart attacks, strokes and other serious heart-related problems later in life.
Several tools are available that enable doctors and patients to calculate vascular age. These suggest there can be a substantial difference between how old you are and how old your blood vessels are. For instance, the vascular age of a 35-year-old man who smokes and has diabetes, high blood pressure and abnormal cholesterol could be as high as 76 years old—more than double his chronological age, according to a recent study. The arteries of a 30-year-old woman with similar risk factors could be equivalent to those of an average woman who is more than 80 years old.
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