Define goals to reach ideal cardiovascular health! This Heart Health Risk Assessment, “My Life Check,” is a free screening tool designed to determine risk of heart disease. This tool evaluates 7 simple achievements used to improve heart health. The tool will be a quick assessment of heart health by entering blood pressure, cholesterol, fasting blood sugar, activity level, fruit/vegetable intake, body weight, and smoking. This takes about 2 minutes to complete. It has been determined that a greater achievement in these 7 simple guidelines results in a lower lifetime occurrence of heart disease including heart failure (1).
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Folsom AR, Shah AM, Lutsey PL, Roetker NS, Alonso A, Avery CL, Miedema MD, Konety S, Chang PP, Solomon SD. American Heart Association’s Life’s Simple 7: Avoiding Heart Failure and Preserving Cardiac Structure and Function. Am J Med. 2015 Apr 20. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25908393