Healthy Hearts Can Still Develop Disease, Study Shows

Reasons not yet reported

Middle-age adults who have seemingly "optimal" heart health may still be at risk for heart disease later in life, a new study says. About four in 10 men and three in 10 women who had normal blood pressure and cholesterol, did not smoke and did not have diabetes at age 55 developed some type of cardiovascular disease later in life. However, those men and women still tended to live more years of their life free of disease; those with optimal health at age 45 developed cardiovascular disease years between eight and 14 years later than those who had at least two risk factors for heart disease at age 45. Overall, for those who were in optimal heart health at age 55, 40 percent of men and 30 percent of women would develop the disease. (NBC News)

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