Online test to determine heart attack, stroke
Leading UK researchers have created an online heart test called JBS3 to calculate a person’s true heart age and graph your chance of having a heart attack or stroke.
Leading UK researchers have created an online heart test called JBS3 to calculate a person’s true heart age and graph your chance of having a heart attack or stroke.
Based on your age, weight, cholesterol levels, blood pressure and whether or not you smoke, the calculator will also tell you the age you are most likely to reach without having a stroke or heart attack.
Doctors tend to focus their efforts on helping people who have a high risk of heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years, but the Joint British Societies, which created the calculator, hope it will enable doctors to intervene earlier.
The test shows that a 35 year old woman who smokes has high blood pressure and raised cholesterol, plus a strong family history of heart disease, will have the heart of a 47 year old.
Current heart assessment methods, which focus only on the next decade, put the heart attack or stroke risk at less than 2%.
The JBS3 test would also estimate her to live to 71 without having a heart attack or stroke.
But if that woman lowered her blood pressure and cholesterol and quit smoking, her heart age would drop to 30 and she'd probably live to 85 without having a heart attack or stroke.
The Joint British Societies is made up of the British Cardiovascular Society, the British Hypertension Society and nine other groups.
The test will be used in national health programs in the UK.
Find out more and use the JBS3 test.
