Is the biological age of your heart higher than your chronological age? In that case, you could be more prone to cardiovascular diseases and would have to do an immediate course correction to reverse it. And all you need to map your heart is a simple electrocardiogram (ECG), where 12 leads can record its electrical activity and relative health.
So what this means is if you are 55 years old but your heart condition is equivalent to that of a 65-year-old according to the ECG reading, your vital organ has aged faster than you. You need to change your lifestyle, adopt healthy habits and seek medical opinion to reduce the risk of heart disease and your ECG-age. The mapping study was led by Honghuang Lin, PhD, professor of medicine and co-director of the Programme in Digital Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School. It expands what was previously known about how deep neural network machine-learning models can estimate age in large healthcare databases from diverse populations.
Dr Varun Bansal, Consultant, Cardiology and Cardio Thoracic surgery at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi, says that an individual’s “heart age” derived from an ECG can provide valuable insights into their overall health status beyond their chronological age. It could make lifestyle modifications a key strategy in preventive healthcare.
