Heart Attack/Coronary Heart Disease Risk Assessment
Learn YOUR Risk!
By age 20, you should know your risk factors. The important risk factors you can control or treat include:
- smoking
- high blood pressure
- high blood cholesterol
- diabetes
- being overweight or obese
- physical inactivity
It's essential that you measure your risk of heart disease and make a plan for how to prevent it in the near future. The Risk Assessment Tool is for people age 20 or older who do not already have heart disease or diabetes.
This tool will help you assess your risk of having a heart attack or dying from coronary heart disease in the next 10 years. It will also check to see if you may have metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that greatly increase your chances of developing cardiovascular disease, including stroke and diabetes.
(Source: The American Heart Association)
Risk Assessment Tool for Estimating 10-year Risk of Developing Hard CHD(Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Death).
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