(Weight Loss News) Study: Heart Shrinks Every Year (KOLR/KSFX Ozarks)

Would you support a ten year, $10 million levy increase to expand Greene County libraries? Every year, your heart gets a little smaller and pumps blood a bit less energetically, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers. They found that with each passing year the human heart loses several grams of muscle mass and pumps out less blood. Study leader Susan Cheng says the result is that, quote, "the heart plays a losing game of catch-up as people age. Results of the study were presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association. Copyright (c) 1998- 2007 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. read more

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