{"id":40887,"date":"2023-01-13T10:29:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=40887"},"modified":"2023-01-13T10:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T10:29:11","slug":"how-old-is-your-heart-as-gps-are-told-anyone-who-wants-statins-can-get-them-in-bid-to-prevent-thousands-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes-take-the-nhs-test-which-calculates-your-risk-of-being-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/01\/13\/how-old-is-your-heart-as-gps-are-told-anyone-who-wants-statins-can-get-them-in-bid-to-prevent-thousands-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes-take-the-nhs-test-which-calculates-your-risk-of-being-struck-down\/","title":{"rendered":"How old is YOUR heart? As GPs are told anyone who wants statins can get them in bid to prevent thousands of heart attacks and strokes, take the NHS test which calculates your risk of being struck down"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25027\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/heart-care-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/heart-care-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/heart-care-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/heart-care-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/heart-care-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/heart-care.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GPs will prescribe statins to anyone who wants them under new guidance aimed at preventing thousands of heart attacks and strokes,\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a class=\"class\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11627331\/Millions-Brits-statins-health-chiefs-recommendations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was revealed yesterday<\/a><\/span>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11627661\/How-old-heart-GPs-told-prescribe-statins-test-assess-risk.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>GPs will prescribe statins to anyone who wants them under new guidance aimed at preventing thousands of heart attacks and strokes,\u00a0it was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/heart-health.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40888,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40887\/revisions\/40888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}