Sixty per cent of women in US think of heart screenings as necessary only after age 40 whereas health experts recommend that screenings should begin in the 20s a study has found. According to the American Heart Association recommendations screenings should start at 20 as the age may cause the onset of various heart-related disease. Women cannot wait until they're 40 to start paying attention to their risk factors. They can begin developing atherosclerosis plaque in their arteries in their teenage and early twenties Carolina Demori cardiologist at the Orlando Health Heart Institute in Florida US said in a statement.
