Heart age is a new concept used to measure the health of a person’s heart. The heart, the most important circulatory organ in the body, has an age of its own, and may be younger than your actual age, or it may be old before its time. According to statistics, approximately 69 million U.S. adults who have never had a heart attack or stroke have a heart age that is at least 5 years older than their actual age, while 1 in 2 adult males have a heart age that is more than 5 years older than their actual age, and 2 in 5 adult females have a heart age that is more than 5 years older than their actual age. On average, the hearts of U.S. adults are 7 years older than they actually are. 75% of heart attacks and strokes are due to risk factors that trigger the aging of the heart. If you still think you’re getting older, is your heart young enough? “Don’t look like you’re in your 50s, your heart looks 80!” Doctors warned a heart patient. The reason was that not only was she a heavy smoker, but she had taken absolutely no steps to control her high blood pressure. There are many factors that age the heart; smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, obesity, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and diabetes all increase the age of your heart. Smoking leads to atherosclerosis, and once the blood vessels become clogged, heart attacks follow and the heart naturally ages faster. In addition, smoking will also promote the formation of blood clots, easy to lead to blood clots, affecting blood lipids and blood sugar. And once suffered from high blood pressure, coronary heart disease may follow. Cardiovascular experts pointed out that hypertension is the main risk factor for coronary heart disease. High blood pressure can promote coronary artery atherosclerosis, blood pressure suddenly rise, may make the atherosclerotic plaque rupture, fall off, the formation of blood clots, resulting in heart attack or even sudden death. Thus, poorly controlled hypertension will accelerate the pace of heart aging. Hyperlipidemia is the most important risk factor for human atherosclerotic diseases, such as common atherosclerotic diseases such as coronary heart disease (including myocardial infarction, angina pectoris and sudden death), stroke, peripheral vascular thromboembolic disease. The incidence of these diseases is high and harmful, and they are the “biggest culprits” of heart aging.