Cardiovascular fitness and heart rate question?

Cardiovascular fitness and heart rate question?http://health.yahoo.net/rodale/MH/wake-up-save-your-life

On the Runaway Heart Rate section, I did the check on my resting heart rate. It turns out my heart pumped 17 times in 15 seconds, 17 times 4 = 68 beats per minute.

It says from the link, quote to quote -
"In fact, Italian researchers found that having an RHR above 70 beats per minute (bpm) increases your risk of dying of heart disease by at least 78 percent"

Is a RHR of 68 still a high chance of heart disease? Note that I am at the age of 14 and is in healthy weight according to the Wii Fitness Plus so that probably changes everything..

Answer by aziz
60-80 can be taken as normal, but in exercising people it can go down, yours is perfectly alright.

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