There's probably nothing wrong about feeling young at heart, but not until this new report suggests that the average American man has a heart that is 7.8 years older than his age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reports added that women have a younger comparable 'heart age' of 5.4 years, but is still higher than their calendar age.
The concept of the study was developed by health experts from the Framingham Heart Study with an intention to educate people about heart attacks, strokes, chest pain and peripheral artery disease, which may all result in death.
Among the countries that are having a high rate of heart-related illnesses, the areas around United States need more help as there were nearly 800,000 Americans die because of heart attacks and other deadly heart conditions.
According to American Heart Association, these heart-related deaths would cost about $320 billion every year. Centers for Disease Control's Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System provide data to be used for the surveys which includes questions related to cardiovascular cases every other year.
As for the reports gathered from several surveys, most participants were either suffering from a body mass index or high blood pressure.
A heart age calculator used for the tests will be requiring for a person's blood pressure that comes from the arteries when a heart beats.
In the totality of the study, the researchers were able to calculate the hearts' ages of 236,101 men and 342,424 women between ages 30 and 74.
Following the calculation, the researchers calculated that the chronological average age of men was 47.8 years but their average heart age was 55.6 years.
For women, their chronological average age was 47.9 years while their average heart age was 53.3 years. The study went on to explain that the older the person is, there is a bigger gap between his chronological average age and heart age.
