When the subject of heart disease comes up, you often hear people discussing the heart disease age range.
There's really no such thing.
Certainly, after a certain age, heart troubles can be harder to prevent, harder to reverse, harder to treat and harder to recover from, but the age range for those who can, and often do experience heart disease goes from zero to one hundred years old.
The older the get, the more at risk you are if you don't take care of yourself, sure.
As we get older, our bodies weaken, our bones grow brittle, we slow down, but heart disease is linked to things like genes, cholesterol, fitness level, diet, and so on, and it can hit anyone at any age.
The popular misconception is that heart troubles primarily affect those over the age of sixty five.
In truth, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for anyone over thirty five years of age, and one of the leading causes of death for those under thirty five.
It's not that you are more at risk of cardiovascular disease as you get older, but that you are more at risk of being less able to recover from the disease as you get older, but being seventy years old doesn't make you any more or less likely of suffering from cardiovascular disease than somebody in their mid twenties.
Somewhere around one million people die each year of cardiovascular disease, and around one hundred sixty thousand of those deaths, in the United States, are suffered by people between the ages of thirty five and sixty five.
Now, to break it down, the statistics show that as you get older, you may be more likely to die from cardiovascular disease, but you are absolutely no more or less likely to suffer from the disease in the first place.
The fact of the matter is that you should probably worry about heart disease BEFORE you hit retirement age, not after.
After a certain age, if you start to experience serious health problems, there's little that can be done.
By the time you're sixty five, you're typically too old to get into shape, to reverse decades of bad diet and no exercise or to catch or reverse certain conditions early.
When you're younger, you have more time and energy to take care of all of this, and to make sure that you're still in good shape by the time you hit your sixties.
In short: Cardiovascular disease can affect anyone at all, not just those past a certain age, it's better to try and prevent heart disease than it is to wait until you're too old to do anything about it, and there's no such thing as an individual who's "safe" from the risk of heart troubles.
There's really no such thing.
Certainly, after a certain age, heart troubles can be harder to prevent, harder to reverse, harder to treat and harder to recover from, but the age range for those who can, and often do experience heart disease goes from zero to one hundred years old.
The older the get, the more at risk you are if you don't take care of yourself, sure.
As we get older, our bodies weaken, our bones grow brittle, we slow down, but heart disease is linked to things like genes, cholesterol, fitness level, diet, and so on, and it can hit anyone at any age.
The popular misconception is that heart troubles primarily affect those over the age of sixty five.
In truth, cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for anyone over thirty five years of age, and one of the leading causes of death for those under thirty five.
It's not that you are more at risk of cardiovascular disease as you get older, but that you are more at risk of being less able to recover from the disease as you get older, but being seventy years old doesn't make you any more or less likely of suffering from cardiovascular disease than somebody in their mid twenties.
Somewhere around one million people die each year of cardiovascular disease, and around one hundred sixty thousand of those deaths, in the United States, are suffered by people between the ages of thirty five and sixty five.
Now, to break it down, the statistics show that as you get older, you may be more likely to die from cardiovascular disease, but you are absolutely no more or less likely to suffer from the disease in the first place.
The fact of the matter is that you should probably worry about heart disease BEFORE you hit retirement age, not after.
After a certain age, if you start to experience serious health problems, there's little that can be done.
By the time you're sixty five, you're typically too old to get into shape, to reverse decades of bad diet and no exercise or to catch or reverse certain conditions early.
When you're younger, you have more time and energy to take care of all of this, and to make sure that you're still in good shape by the time you hit your sixties.
In short: Cardiovascular disease can affect anyone at all, not just those past a certain age, it's better to try and prevent heart disease than it is to wait until you're too old to do anything about it, and there's no such thing as an individual who's "safe" from the risk of heart troubles.