Heart disease risk assessment

Written on November 11, 2009 – 11:11 pm | by Barry |

Heart disease risk assessment

The MyHeartRisk heart disease risk assessment takes a different approach to others.

As well as performing a heart risk assessment this routine provides personal guidance and health recommendations as a direct response to the data entered by the user. This approach to heart disease risk assessment is based upon a relationship between the user and the program rather than the usual method of entering a few pieces of data with no follow up.

The user is prompted to input data about themselves and their family members. Another marked difference is that the data is retained and safely stored enabling the user to return as often as required.

A special importance is given to any heart disease in the user’s family by having a place to record details of any heart disease problems with family members and building their family tree to record details of heart attack, stroke, PVD and surgical cardiovascular procedure.

The output is a package written for the individual and consists of a family tree, risk charts and a detailed personal report which can be printed.
Heart disease risk assessment components Each of these are helpful to the user and their doctor. The doctor is presented with well organized and researched data without having to spend time collecting this from the user.

The user is encouraged to return to the program and update their information in response to the health recommendations and this new data is used to produce progress charts.

The significant differences between this heart disease risk assessment or other risk assessment tools are:


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Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’
Preventing your heart disease - free ebook

Take this opportunity to get your heart disease risk assessment.

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Preventing heart disease

Written on November 11, 2009 – 12:57 pm | by Barry |

Preventing heart disease

We all take steps to avoid things we don’t like. We are careful when crossing a road, we try to avoid catching a cold, take precautions to stop getting sun burn, getting dehydrated and many more. So you might think that something as important as preventing heart disease would be one of these unpleasant things to avoid. Not dying earlier than necessary should be one of our priorities but preventing heart disease is rarely thought about and when it is considered it is maybe too late anyway.

Some of us would need something unusual to happen to make us think about preventing heart disease for ourselves.

  • This might be a relative having a stroke or heart attack or similar.
  • Maybe this happens to a friend of about the same age as ourselves.
  • Maybe we have a routine blood pressure or cholesterol check up and we our suprised by the results.
  • We finally believe the endless advice to stop smoking or shed a few pounds.

Whatever the stimulus for making us think then is the time to take action. If you wait for the symptoms to hit you then sorry its too late to think about preventing heart disease and to start worrying about dealing with heart disease.

OK so hopefully we have got your interest in this important, life changing and possibly prolonging subject and you are ready to be selfish and start thinking about yourself.

What you need to do is to get started is to find what position you are in now in what you can do to make it better. Sure if you stop smoking or reduce your weight or take exercise these will all make a difference but how much of a difference and are there other more important things to consider also.

We need to get a bit technical here and consider your heart disease risk factors which include these main groupings:

  • You
    • Are you male or female
    • How old are you
    • What is your blood pressure
    • How is your cholesterol
  • Family history
    • Do you have a relative whose first sign of heart disease was at an early age
    • How close is this family member to you
    • How many relatives are like this
  • Lifestyle
    • Are you overweight
    • Do you smoke
    • How good is your diet
    • Do you use cocaine or steroids
    • Do you drink too much
    • Are you stressed
  • Health conditions
    • Do you have diabetes
    • Do you have dyslipidemia

Once you know your risk factors and which are the more important and how they add up to make your heart disease risk score then you can see what can be done to get your score down and lower your risk which is the principal of preventing heart disease.

Like most things in life the benefits are in the details and nothing comes easy so you will have to do a little research and make a small effort to get the results. Ultimately you may need medical help to lower your risk but there is a lot you can do before you get to that point even if it becomes necessary.

Get started with the MyHeartRisk personal heart disease risk assessment where you first record your data and let the program assess where you are now on the heart disease risk scale. You get instructions and the time to enter data about yourself and your family members. You get back the following to help both yourself and to show to your doctor:

Preventing heart disease
Heart disease is the leading cause of death and preventing heart disease or at least avoiding it for as long as possible is worth starting today.

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’
Preventing your heart disease - free ebook
We hope you will take this self help program and the opportunity to start preventing heart disease.

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Heart disease risk

Written on November 10, 2009 – 4:19 pm | by Barry |

Heart disease risk

Your heart disease risk is the chance of you getting heart disease in the next 10 years. This obviously assumes that you do not have heart disease already.

Hopefully your heart disease risk is lower or about the same as the average for the population for your age and gender or it may be slightly above the average or much higher than the average.

If you knew that your risk was high then hopefully you want to do what you reasonably can to get it as close as possible to the average. A higher than average heart disease risk does not necessarily mean you will soon die of heart disease and some people with low risks do die of heart disease. That is because our health is a complex subject and even the medics do not yet understand it all.

It is possible to study an individual and this is done by looking at three groupings of heart disease risk factors:

  • Family history
    If you have a history of heart disease in your family then you may have a higher heart disease risk
  • Lifestyle
    If you have a less than optimal life style then this may contribute to a higher chance of heart problems
  • Health conditions
    If you have such health conditions as high blood pressure, diabetes, abnormal cholesterol etc. then these may have a negative affect also.

OK so now you know the basic outline of the problem but what you really need to know is how this all applies to you.
How do you judge if you have a family history of heart disease?
You probably have an idea if your lifestyle is poor if you are overweight or if you smoke but how poor is it and what difference does it make.
If you do suffer with hypertension or diabetes then these are negative heart disease risk factors but the severity will depend on how these conditions are being treated.

The only proper way to get an assessment of your heart disease risk is to get outside help to look at you as an individual and study your data or to “crunch you numbers”.
Ultimately you may need professional medical help including medication to sufficiently lower your risk but there is a lot you can do before you get to that point even if it becomes necessary.
The place to start is to get a thorough personal risk assessment where you first record your data and let the program assess where you are now on the heart disease risk scale.
By using the MyHeartRisk personal heart disease risk assessment you get help and the time to enter data about yourself and your family members. You get back invaluable aids to both yourself and to share with your doctor including

Heart disease risk assessment components
You owe it to yourself and your family to look after yourself. Heart disease is the leading cause of death and preventing heart disease or at least postponing it for as long as possible is a sensible precaution that you can take starting today.

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’
Preventing your heart disease - free ebook
We hope you will take this opportunity to lower your heart disease risk.

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Cardiovascular risk calculator

Written on November 1, 2009 – 7:43 pm | by Barry |

The cardiovascular risk calculator from My Heart Risk is not like any other as it takes the principal of calculating risk but then provides a comprehensive personal service including a family tree, risk charts and a detailed report with health recommendations.

The concept of using a cardiovascular risk calculator where quick math is performed giving an instant answer is not what is needed for this important life changing and hopefully life prolonging process of your heart disease prevention. MyHeartRisk not only performs as a cardiovascular risk calculator but does much more and at the level of the individual.

The first step is to enter your data, this 5 minute video will take you through the process

Now the MyHeartRisk cardiovascular risk calculator provides your own family tree. Your family tree (also known as a pedigree drawing) shows which of your family members have had heart problems such as a heart attack or stroke.

Family tree

You also get risk charts showing your 10, 20 and 30 year risk and your total risk broken down by risk factors.


Your personalized report is a multi-page summary of your heart disease risk together with health recommendations.

Follow these links to see examples

This report will be easily understandable by yourself but you should show this to your doctor as he or she will find it most useful as you are providing well presented information about yourself and you are helping your physician to better help you.

The final part of the My Heart Risk cardiovascular risk calculator is the production of progress charts:

These progress charts will show you the improvements you have made and will continue to make by following the personal report health recommendations and your doctor’s advice.

To get started you should use the MyHeartRisk cardiovascular risk calculator .

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’
Preventing your heart disease - free ebook

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Heart MOT

Written on November 1, 2009 – 5:12 pm | by Barry |

Heart MOT: how long will your heart keep motoring

Heart MOT

We all hope our car will run well and efficiently so we get it regularly serviced and repaired.

We all hope our life will be as long as possible and that we will have good health but most do not think about getting a heart MOT which would tell us what about our heart needs servicing.

It would seem we think our car is more important than our heart health!

As a minimum a heart MOT should include:

  • Cholesterol test
  • Blood pressure
  • Blood suger

But what can you do with the results and what do they mean to you?

You should take your results and use then to get a personal heart risk assessment from My Heart Risk.

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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can keep you informed and to get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’
Preventing your heart disease - free ebook

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Your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer

Written on October 23, 2009 – 11:35 pm | by Barry |

Your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer

Assessing your risk for heart disease using a conventional heart disease risk calculator is only achieving a small part of what can be accomplished by this your heart risk calculator and report writer from My Heart Risk.

In addition to calculating your risk for heart disease at your current age and for the next 30 years this program provides you with a personalized service including

Your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer

The personal report contains health recommendations which relate to the data you enter about yourself. Other heart disease risk calculator routines can only provide generalized comments and recommendations which are not specific to you as an individual.

This heart risk calculator uses a new concept of building a relationship between you and My Heart Risk. This relationship enables you to accurately enter information about yourself and your family members from which the heart disease risk assessment is performed and the multipart personal report is generated.

MyHeartRisk will highlight any important missing data that would enable a more accurate risk assessment to be performed and because of your MyHeartRisk membership you can return and enter this when it is available.

The risk charts and report will give you the incentive and encouragement to follow the personal health recommendations and you can return at anytime to update your data. You will then be able to see the improvements you are making by studying the progress charts.

How to prevent heart disease

You are not alone in your goal to prevent heart disease for yourself as My Heart Risk is your partner and health coach helping you learn how to prevent heart disease. In some circumstances you may need assistance from your doctor or other health care provider and this is where My Heart Risk can help you to talk to your doctor and advocate for yourself using your personal report.

The personal report together with the family tree and risk charts are presented in such a way as to be readily understood by yourself but also be of help to your doctor. The data you enter into the MyHeartRisk your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer will be invaluable in helping your physician to help you.

Most appointments with doctors do not allow sufficient time for the doctor to get a full picture of your circumstances but by sharing your MyHeartRisk personal report with your physician you will be presenting your doctor with the information about yourself and your family history that you have recorded ahead of time.

By joining My Heart Risk you will not only be using a sophisticated heart disease risk calculator but you will have a partner to help prevent heart problems by giving you personal targetted health recommendations, the ability to work better with your physician, encoragement to get the job done and feedback showing you the improvements you have made.

Join our MyHeartRisk online family by taking our newsletter then we can email you details on how to use the heart disease risk calculator and report writer. To get you started you will receive a free ebook
‘Preventing your heart disease’
Preventing your heart disease - free ebook
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This is part of the MyHeartRisk (My Heart Risk) series on how to prevent heart disease including:

MyHeartRisk mission: To help users better understand their personal heart disease risk factors and how to advocate for themselves with their health care providers for a more healthy and potentially longer life. To ask the question ‘What is my heart risk’ and get not only a personalized response but to have a partner on the road to improved health and longevity.

We hope you will make use of your heart disease risk calculator and personal report writer as a step towards preventing your heart disease.

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