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Act now to stop ageing arteries29 August 2006 People should take action now to stop the premature ageing of their arteries, according to a new study. The new research, funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), has shown that some heart disease sufferers have arteries that seem up to 40 years older than their real age. But the BHF also said that even people who already have mild heart disease can take steps to slow down this process. "In early stages of heart disease, the arteries are between 5 and 15 years older than the person's real age," said Professor Martin Bennett, BHF professor of cardiovascular sciences, who led the research. "If you have mild heart disease and can limit your risk factors by stopping smoking, controlling hypertension and diabetes, and taking statins to lower cholesterol, you will slow this ageing process." He added: "If you do nothing, the cells can reach extreme old age very prematurely - and once they do that, the process cannot be reversed." Professor Bennett's study was the first to use tissue from heart bypass and transplant patients to map artery cell ageing. It was published in the journal Circulation Research. Heart disease is one of the country's biggest killers, claiming around 110,000 lives in England every year. More information
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