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Why the Mid-30s Are a Major Turning Point for Men's Heart Health
Men’s 10-year cardiovascular risk starts rising around age 35 and reaches significant levels 7 years earlier than women, driven mainly by coronary heart disease, study shows.
- Researchers found men’s cardiovascular risk begins to diverge around age 35, with men facing higher risk than women, as published Wednesday in the journal.
- Differences in biology and care patterns may explain the gap, as young adult women have more preventive visits while young adult men delay risk detection; sex hormones and cholesterol also partly explain disparities beyond traditional risk factors.
- Using rolling 10-year risk windows on CARDIA cohort data, men reached a 5 percent cardiovascular incidence at 50.5 years versus 57.5 for women after around 34 years of follow-up with 227 men who experienced cardiovascular events.
- Experts urged earlier screening for men, as updated risk equations now allow clinicians to estimate risk from age 30, supporting preventive care visits among young men.
- Most of the sex gap is driven by coronary heart disease, while researchers caution that women’s risk can accelerate after menopause , with heart disease as a leading cause of death.
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Heart disease is often considered to be a condition of older age. However, a long-term study now shows that in men the risk increases significantly earlier than in women.
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In men and women, the risk of cardiovascular disease is comparable up to about 35 years of age – after that, however, it increases significantly faster in men.
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