Anonymous19 days ago
A landmark 35-year Northwestern Medicine study of over 5,100 adults found that men's cardiovascular disease risk begins accelerating sharply around age 35 — roughly seven years before women — with coronary heart disease appearing a full decade sooner. The findings, combined with a separate Boston University study showing that lifestyle habits adopted in one's 20s can multiply or reduce heart attack risk by up to tenfold, are driving calls from cardiologists to begin routine heart health screening for men at age 30, far earlier than current practice typically allows.