New Delhi, July 31 -- A recent study has suggested that the heart's age for several Americans could be a decade older than their actual age. In the United States, heart disease serves as the leading cause of death, and the research highlights that the heart might be aging faster compared to the rest of the body, Today reported.

Dr Sadiya Khan, the Magerstadt professor of cardiovascular epidemiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told the news outlet that doctors usually give a percentage to talk about the patient's risk for a heart-related disease.

Khan, along with her team, conducted a study to get a less abstract and more relatable way through which the risk of heart disease can be conveyed. For this, they wor...