
“I’ll worry about my heart health when I’m older.” Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. That may be too late, doctors warn. While the average age for being diagnosed with heart disease in the United States is typically in the mid-60s for men and early 70s for women, the factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes and bad cholesterol levels, can start years, sometimes decades, earlier.
Main Idea: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine researchers helped develop a new heart disease calculator that estimates a young adult’s 30-year risk, not just the next 10 years.
Key Points:
Young adults may worry more about heart risk, and the calculator could mislead people if its 30-year estimate is wrong or too hard to interpret.
Northwestern University researchers built a tool that may help people find heart problems earlier and start healthier habits before disease gets worse.
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