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Welcome to the
Momenta Heart
Health Check

Your heart is the most important organ in your body. It delivers oxygen and nutrients to tissues and vital organs by pumping blood through your blood vessels.

Over time, your lifestyle can cause wear and tear on your blood vessels and lead to serious health problems like heart attack, stroke, angina and vascular dementia known as cardiovascular disease (CVD). The good news is there are lots of things you can do to limit this wear and tear and the health issues it can cause.

Take the Momenta Heart Health Check and receive your FREE personalised Heart Health Report. It will help you discover the impact your lifestyle could be having on your heart health and learn about key day-to-day changes you can make to help.

There are around 7.6 million people living with heart and circulatory diseases in the UK - twice as many people as living with cancer and Alzheimer's combined

Heart Health Check

This short Heart Health Check has eight questions and is in two parts.

Part 1: Asks about four key measurements health care professionals use to assess your heart health.

Part 2: Focuses on day-to-day lifestyle choices that can have a big impact on your heart health.

Most questions can be answered Yes or No. If you’re not sure how to answer, click on the icon for more information. If you’re still not sure, don’t worry, just answer “Don’t know” and continue to the next question.

Once you’ve answered all the questions you’ll receive your Heart Health Report. The more questions you answer accurately, the more helpful your report will be.

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Heart Health Check (Part 1): Measurements

Has a health care professional told you that you have high blood pressure?

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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:
  • 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:
  • Include vegetables or fruit at every meal
  • Choose fruit for dessert or as a snack
  • Almost always eat wholegrain cereal products like wholegrain bread, wholewheat pasta and brown rice over “white” alternatives
  • Eat fish, beans, lentils, white meat or some dairy foods as your main sources of protein in most meals
  • Eat red or processed meat only occasionally, if at all
  • Reserve sweet treats and sugary drinks for special occasions rather than having them every day
  • Limit foods that are high in salt and don’t add salt to meals
What counts as physically active?

All activity is good activity but some has greater health benefits. This question is asking for how much “moderate” intensity activity you do.

If you’re working at “moderate” intensity , 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

 

Simply walking more quickly than normal or cycling can achieve this. Other activities like housework, gardening, dancing, exercise and sport can also have the same effect.

Note: If you can’t sing or have to take a breath between words, this can be described as “vigorous” activity. To answer this question, count every 1 minute of vigorous activity as 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 Units” 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’re of white family origin and your BMI is 25 or above.
  • You’re of Black African, African Caribbean, South Asian, Chinese, Middle Eastern and mixed family origin, and your BMI is 23 or above (you have 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 link will open a new browser window, so you can use the British Heart Foundation BMI calculator to work out 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 what your BMI is, answer “Don’t know”

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’ve 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.