Another factor on lower resting heart rate is simply age-as you get older, your resting heart rate will also decline. If an older person had an elevated resting heart rate, I would have a reason to be concerned also.

I think cbhungry just was pointing out another way resting heart rate could be lower. It's nothing to panic about unless you feel like you're heart rate is abnormally low or you're passing out all of a sudden or something along those lines. It's always good to know as many reasons as possible why something could be happening physiologically.

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