Dated : 10-JUL-2013 Source : India Today The India Today-Saffolalife Study 2011 on 46,000 urban Indians shows that 78 per cent of men between 30 and 34 run the risk of a heart attack. And their hearts are ageing faster than their real age. Here are the common perceptions that the study blows apart: Your biological age is the same as your heart age REALITY "Calendar age has little to do with organ function. People remain much younger than their birth age if they look after themselves," says Dr Prashant Joshi of Government Medical College, Nagpur, who led the Indian chapter of the interheart study. "The risk factors affect blood vessels, which in turn affect the heart. The 17th century physician Thomas Sydenham had once famously said, you are as old as your arteries," he adds. "Changing one's lifestyle is very difficult. Knowing the heart age can motivate people to adopt a healthy lifestyle." Indians are genetically vulnerable to heart dis...
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