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Now there’s a handy calculator that tells you how old your heart is

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How young – and healthy – is your heart? (Picture: Getty)

Want to know if you’re as young at heart? We mean literally.

Thanks to a handy, although slightly terrifying, heart risk calculator created by America’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, now you can get a good idea how old your heart is.

You just need to know your BMI, your age (hopefully, you’ve got that down), and your average systolic blood pressure (that’s the top number on your reading – so anything between 120 and 140 is considered normal).

Click here to get your not-so-magic number.

The CDC decided to create its calculator after a study of half-a-million American adults, aged between 30 and 74, found that 40 per cent had hearts that were five or more years… Read the full story


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