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Health Report

Thank you for completing your Heart Health Check

Your risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases comes down to two things: your genes and your lifestyle choices.  Things you can’t change like your age, a family history of heart problems and ethnicity can all increase your risk.  For most people, heart and circulatory diseases develop because of day-to-day lifestyle choices. The Heart Health Check Report focuses on those things you can do something about.

Your personalised Heart Health Report is based on your responses to the questions in the Heart Health Check. If you have indicated that you have a risk factor, the report will show this and explain how that clinical measurement or behaviour increases your chances of developing heart and circulatory diseases. Your likelihood of developing heart and circulatory diseases increases with each additional risk factor.

Heart Health Report (part 1): Measurements

Heart Health Report (Part 2): Lifestyle behaviours

Thank you for completing the Heart Health Check and reading your report. If the report identified that you have any heart health risk factors you could benefit from attending a Momenta CVD Prevention Programme.

If you’re not interested in attending a programme but would like to learn more about any of the risk factors or how to access support to change one of them, please see the directory of helpful links for more information.

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Answer yes if:
  • You have been told by a health care professional that you have high total cholesterol, or high LDL (bad) cholesterol.
  • You are taking medication to lower your cholesterol e.g. statins.

Note: If you’ve taken your own cholesterol using an at home kit and had a high reading this is not a clinical diagnosis and you should answer “Don’t know” to this question.

Your Heart Health Report will give you more information about this risk factor and how you can get it measured.

Answer yes if:

Your weekly diet pattern achieves these key components:

  • Including vegetables or fruit at every meal
  • Choosing fruit for dessert or as a snack
  • Almost always eating wholegrain cereal products like wholegrain bread, wholewheat pasta and brown rice
  • Eating fish, beans, lentils, white meat or some dairy foods as the main sources of protein in most meals
  • Eating red or processed meat only occasionally, if at all
  • Reserving sweet treats and sugary drinks for special occasions rather than eating them every day
  • Limiting foods that are high in salt and not adding salt to meals
*What counts as physically active?

When you are physically active or exercising, how hard you are working makes a difference to the benefits the activity has on your body. All activity is good activity but some has greater health benefits. This question is asking for how much “moderate” intensity activity you do.

Moderate intensity physical activity is any activity you do that raises your heart rate to a level that is enough to make you feel warm and slightly out of breath. Your body also gives you some other clues to let you know how hard you’re working.

When doing a moderate activity, typically:

  • your heart rate increases
  • you feel warmer and may start to sweat
  • you breathe a little faster or harder but are not out of breath
  • you can carry on a conversation, taking a few extra breaths between sentences, but not be able to sing

 

This is often achieved by walking more quickly than normal or cycling. Other activities like housework, gardening, dancing, exercise and sport can also have the same effect.

Note: If you’re having to take a breath between words in a sentence, this can be described as vigorous physical activity. To answer this question, for every 1 minute of vigorous activity is equal to 2 minutes of moderate activity.

Answer yes if: you drink more than 14 units a week

If you’re not sure how much alcohol you drink in a typical week, use our “Alcohol Unit reference diagram” to find out. Think about the type and how many drinks you have over the course of a typical week and use the diagram to calculate your average number of units per week.

If you’re still not sure answer “Don’t Know”

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Answer yes if:

You are from a White ethnic group and your Body Mass Index is 25 or above.

You are from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic group and your BMI is 23 or above (there is a higher risk of developing some long-term conditions like Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease at a lower BMI).

Calculate Your BMI

This link will open a new browser window, so you can use the NHS BMI calculator to work out your BMI.

Check Your BMI

This browser window will stay open, so you can come back and carry on with your Heart Health Check straight away.

If you’re still not sure, answer “Don’t know”

BMI uses your height and weight to work out if you’re a healthy weight, underweight or overweight. Your BMI result is not the perfect measure of your overall health. It can’t tell if you’re carrying too much fat or you’ve got a lot of muscle. You could use your BMI result as a starting point for further discussion with your GP. The adult BMI doesn’t take into account age, sex or muscular build. This means that:

  • Older adults can have a healthy BMI but still have too much fat. This is because older adults tend to have more body fat than younger adults.
  • Women can have a healthy BMI but still have too much fat. This is because women tend to have more body fat than men with the same BMI.
  • If you’re from a black and ethnic minority group, you’re at increased risk of type 2 diabetes with a BMI of 23 or more.
  • An athletic adult with a lot of muscle may have a high BMI but not be overweight. This is because BMI can’t tell the difference between fat and muscle.


Taking these limitations into account, the BMI is a relatively straightforward and convenient way of initially assessing someone’s weight. If you are pregnant, you should use your pre-pregnancy weight to work out your BMI. Using your pregnancy weight may not be accurate.

Answer yes if:
  • You have been told by a health care professional that you have diabetes (Type 1 or Type 2) or pre-diabetes
  • You are taking medication for diabetes e.g. metformin

Note: If you’ve taken your own blood glucose (sugar) using an at home kit and had a high reading this is not a clinical diagnosis of pre-diabetes or diabetes and you should answer “Don’t know” to this question.

Your Heart Health Report will give you more information about this risk factor and how you can get it measured.

Answer yes if:
  • You have been told by a health care professional that you have high total cholesterol, or high LDL (bad) cholesterol.
  • You are taking medication to lower your cholesterol e.g. statins.

Note: If you’ve taken your own cholesterol using an at home kit and had a high reading this is not a clinical diagnosis and you should answer “Don’t know” to this question.

Your Heart Health Report will give you more information about this risk factor and how you can get it measured.

Answer yes if:
  • You have been told by a health care professional that you have high blood pressure (hypertension). 
  • You take medication for high blood pressure (hypertension)

 

Note: If you’ve taken your own blood pressure at home without support from your GP surgery and had a high reading this is not a diagnosis of high blood pressure, which can only be done by a health care professional. You should answer “Don’t know” to this question.

Your Heart Health Report will give you more information about this risk factor and how you can get it measured.