New Tool Calculates Your Heart’s True Age, British Medical Journal Reveals

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Scientists have developed a new tool that can calculate the true age of your heart to estimate your risk of developing cardiovascular disease later in life. The risk calculator uses current familial and lifestyle risk factors to estimate the true age of a person’s heart. It then predicts how many more years an individual can expect to live before they have a heart attack/stroke compared with someone without these particular factors - if no corrective action is taken.

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