It's good to be young at heart, we're told, but guess what — most of us are older at heart than we are in years on this planet.

That's what a shocking study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found when it analyzed mountains of risk data that compared the "heart age" measure to people's chronological age. Fully 75 percent of Americans, the CDC said, have heart ages older than their actual age, based on the data.

That's not good news for those who fall in the 75 percent category.

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