Your Heart May Be Older Than You Think

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Your Heart May Be Older Than You Think

Some people are said to have old souls. Some may have old hearts, too.

Many Americans, particularly men with less education, lower income, and those from certain minority groups, have a “heart age” that is much older than what the calendar may indicate, according to a new tool developed by researchers at Northwestern University and published on July 30 in JAMA Cardiology.

Sadiya Khan, MD, a cardiologist at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, in Chicago, and her colleagues wanted to simplify how clinicians communicate cardiovascular risk to patients, making it easier to interpret and understand.

“It’s really important that risk is used in how we manage patients in preventive cardiology, but it can be really challenging to interpret the results,” she said. “What does a 7.5% 10-year risk mean, for example?”

Khan and her colleagues developed a tool to calculates a person’s “heart age” based on known cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, and smoking status. A 50-year-old with several high-risk factors could have a heart age that is equivalent to a 65-year-old with an optimal risk profile — a revelation that may help prompt them to take action on reducing their risk.

Risk age calculations are not new — the European Society of Cardiology’s 2021 guidelines on prevention of cardiovascular disease allow such predictions, and they were also developed for the Framingham risk model. But Khan wanted to update the concept using the newer American Heart Association’s PREVENT equations, and to take advantage of the growing public awareness of healthy aging.

To evaluate the tool Khan’s team tested it on more than 14,000 US adults aged 30-79 with no history of cardiovascular disease, using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. On average, women in the survey had a chronological age of 51.3 years, but a heart age of 55.4 years, whereas for men the disparity was even greater: an average chronological age of 49.7 years but an average heart age of 56.7 years.

Socioeconomic factors, such as education and income, also had a big effect on heart age. Among those with a high school education or less, more than one fifth of women, and nearly one third of men, had a heart age more than 10 years older than their true age.

The gap was also significantly wider among members of certain racial and ethnic minorities. Black men had a heart age 8.5 years older than their true age vs 7.9 years older for Hispanic men, 6.7 years older for Asian men, and 6.4 years older for White men. The gaps were 6.2 years for Black women, 4.8 years for Hispanic women, 3.7 years for White women, and 2.8 years for Asian women, according to the researchers.

“I think some of the social factors that we highlighted where an individual’s heart age might be older than their actual age, while not surprising, are helpful to see the health of the nation,” Khan said.

The authors of an editorial accompanying the journal article wrote the new tool “reframes risk in a more intuitive, personally relevant way” and combines epidemiology with behavioral psychology.

“This strategy taps into an intuitive grasp of time and aging, a concept more emotionally salient than a probabilistic 10-year risk estimate and may help bridge the persistent gap between knowledge of risk and engagement in health-promoting behavior,” they wrote.

Presenting risk in this way could be particularly useful for younger people, whose lower absolute risk means they seldom think about ways they can improve their cardiovascular health, according to Khan and her colleagues.

The team has created a free online version of the heart age calculator, but Khan said it is intended to be used in consultation with a physician.(I can't complete this, no clue on cholesterol level or blood pressure.)

A differen test here: Test here:

http://www.heartage.me/your-heart-age/your-health

“Our goal is not to have this be patient-facing but to have it be targeted to clinicians to help support that patient-clinician discussion,” she said. “A tool like this is only as useful as the conversation that follows about the opportunities to promote or maintain heart health in optimizing your heart age.”

How your heart age is key to heart attack or stroke risk

At my age at stroke of 50 my heart age was 51. On average, someone like you can expect to live to the age of 79 without having a heart attack or stroke.
At my current age of 62 my heart age was 71. On average, someone like you can expect to live to the age of 80 without having a heart attack or stroke.
This last one is invalid since it doesn't allow you to specify that you already have cardiovascular disease(stroke).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45395576

Public Health England is urging people over 30 to take an online test to find out their heart age, which indicates if they are at increased risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke.

They predict about 80% of heart attacks and strokes in people under 75 could be prevented if heart health was improved.
Unhealthy lifestyles put four in five adults at risk of early death, they estimate.
People should quit smoking, eat a healthy diet and get enough exercise.
The test is not diagnostic - it will not tell you whether you are going to have a heart attack - but it can be a wake-up call to make healthy changes.
David Green, who is 59, took the test.
"The worst moment was being told my heart is 10 years older than me and that my life expectancy was shortened," he told the BBC.
"That took some digesting for sure, but I flipped it to a positive statement to do something to reverse that scenario."

Image copyright David Green

David took the test after he struggled to keep up with rehearsals for his role in The Full Monty with his local theatre company in Plymouth.

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He had never heard of heart age, but said he would have guessed he was only a few years off.
"I'm 59 now so I thought 'oh maybe it'll be 62 or 63', so a whole 10 years - that was a real shocker.
"They told me that 'you really need to do something otherwise you're not going to see that much of your pension'.
"I think that was the main thing for me, I'd just retired, I'd like to live a bit longer thank you very much."
Obesity, poor diet, a lack of exercise and high blood pressure are significant risk factors for the heart that can be changed.

How to improve your heart health:

• Give up smoking
• Get active
• Manage your weight
• Eat more fibre
• Cut down on saturated fat
• Get your five a day fruit and vegetables
• Cut down on salt
• Eat fish
• Drink less alcohol
• Read labels on food and drink packaging

Source: NHS Choices

Almost two million people have taken the heart age test and 78% of participants have a heart age higher than their actual age, putting them at greater risk of an early death. Of those, 34% were more than five years over their actual age and 14% at least 10 years higher.
More than 84,000 people die from a heart attack or stroke each year in England.
Dr Matt Kearney, from NHS England, said the test has the "potential to help millions of people".
The test is being backed by the British Heart Foundation and the Stroke Association.
Juliet Bouverie, chief executive at the Stroke Association, said: "We believe that across the UK there are around six million people who are undiagnosed and untreated for high blood pressure or atrial fibrillation, two of the biggest risk factors for stroke.
"However, treatment for these conditions can significantly reduce your risk of stroke and the devastation it causes."

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http://www.medpagetoday.com/PublicHealthPolicy/PublicHealth/63049?

• by Nicole Lou
  Contributing Writer, MedPage Today February 09, 2017
• This article is a collaboration between MedPage Today® and:
  

Abuse of amphetamines was associated with premature biological aging in a way that was more aggressive than tobacco smoking, according to a single-center study.
After adjusting for multiple variables, amphetamine users had prematurely aging hearts as measured by arterial stiffness (P<0.0001), according to the study published online in Heart Asia.
And the biological age-to-chronological age slope was steeper with amphetamines than among tobacco user, Albert Stuart Reece, MD, and colleagues of the University of Western Australia, and colleagues reported.
"The process seems to occur more aggressively than with tobacco smoking," they wrote. "It appears to follow a different time course to that of the positive methadone control group."
"The implication from the present work is that recurrent habitual amphetamine abuse ages the cardiovasculature, and likely the whole organism generally. It is therefore conceivable that stimulant abusers do physiological and cardiovascular harm," they suggested.
Most (94%) users used amphetamines such as "speed," "ice," and "ecstasy" in the previous week; almost half (47%) reported use the day prior.
"These results show that subacute exposure to amphetamines is associated with an advancement of cardiovascular-organismal age both over age and over time, and is robust to adjustment," Reece's group wrote, although they admitted that they lacked dosage data.
Accelerated aging declined with time since last amphetamine use.
Asked by MedPage Today to provide comment, Matthias Liechti, MD, MAS, of University of Basel in Switzerland, argued that this shows that at least part of the "so-called aging" is simply vasoconstriction.
"Although chronic amphetamine use seems unlikely to benefit the circulation, I am not convinced that these changes are chronically lasting -- at least not the ones shown in this study," he wrote in an email.
Reece and colleagues included 713 patients in their study: 55 amphetamine users, 107 tobacco smokers, 483 non-smokers, and 68 methadone patients. The investigators measured heart age by radial arterial pulse tonometry (the SphygmoCor monitoring system).
Liechti questioned whether it was possible to control for all the lifestyle and health factors associated with amphetamine use, such as tobacco smoking. "In a between-subject study, such as the present one, it is difficult to control for these factors. So the changes in the vasculature, if at all of a lasting nature, may rather be linked to factors associated with amphetamine use disorder rather than reflect a lasting problem of the substance itself."
"Also note, that ADHD children use amphetamine daily and for years and they do not seem to suffer from any vascular problems," he added.
He conceded that the same cannot be said confidently for d-amphetamine and mixed amphetamines, however.

Reece and Liechti declared no conflicts of interest.

last updated 02.14.2017

• Primary Source

  Heart Asia

  Source Reference: Reece AS, et al "Acceleration of cardiovascular-biological age by amphetamine exposure is a power function of chronological age" Heart Asia 2017; DOI: 10.1136/heartasia-2016-010832.

Most adults' 'heart age' exceeds their actual age: U.S. CDC

Mine tells me I'm 61  instead of my age of 59 but you have to lie and say you have not had a stroke to get thru the test.
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Most adults' 'heart age' exceeds their actual age: U.S. CDC