If a life of working out and playing in the outdoors has led to good cholesterol and normal blood pressure and you’ve made it at least into your 40s with these stats it means you’re very unlikely to blow an aorta or suffer a stroke. So says a new study from the New England Journal of Medicine. The bummer? “If at age 45 you have two or more of either elevated blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes or smoking, and you’re a man, then there’s a 50-50 proposition that you will have a heart attack or a stroke during your remaining lifespan,” says the head of the story. Oh snap.

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