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How old are your arteries?

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:You are as old as your arteries, which does not always equal the number of candles on your birthday cake."

As many of us cannot expect tests to determine the state of our arteries, we can estimate our chances of having a heart attack or stroke, needing bypass surgery or angioplasty or developing PVA or heart disease by using the Framingham Scores contained in this article.

Anyone interested in publishing their results?
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newslette ... r-arteries

Please note, this is an assessment and anyone who is worried by their score needs to discuss it with their G.P.
 
mcdonagh47 said:
Woohoo !

real age 66

artery age 64

my body is younger than me
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Hope that doesn't count against you when you go to claim your pension.
 
Thank you for posting this - I'm always a sucker for questionnaires!

But I found the results very sobering:
I'm 61, but scored 13 which means my arteries are 73!
If you take off the 4 points for diabetes, it's 9 points which is artery age 55.

Does diabetes really make so much difference? Or can someone tell me I'm just bad at arithmetic?

Jane
 
It depends on gender.

A man scoring 9 points would be 51.
A man with 13 points would be 64.

If you google "gender differences in Framingham Study" there are plenty of articles.

As we get older the risk score gets wider between men and women. :thumbdown:
 
One year younger going by the Framingham Score, but for diabetes my arteries would be 8 years younger

That said I had a full MOT 2 years ago so not too worried
 
hmmmm, its impossible for me to get under 48 lol im 43 yrs ??

if i have perfect bp and perfect chol im still 48?

or am i doing it wrong?
 
I've had mine for as long as I can remember,though there abit gunged up these days.my own fault for smoking.
 
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