Is your heart healthy? Here is the test to do!

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Is your heart healthy Here is the test to do

400 people die every day in France from cardiovascular disease. It is the leading cause of death for French women. The French Federation of Cardiology has developed a test to assess its cardiovascular risk. Here it is.

[Mise à jour le 1er février 2023 à 11h22] Every day, 400 people die in France from cardiovascular disease. These diseases are leading cause of death for French women, recalls the French Federation of Cardiology (FFC) in a press release dated February 1, 2023. “The first step in reducing your risk factors is to know your condition in order to act accordingly” she explains. It thus offers a online test toassess your cardiovascular health. In order to encourage the general public to act throughout the year, the FFC is relaunching a new system, between January 30 and March 12, 2023with the rebroadcast of 5 films on television and a audio campaign.

What is your age, height, weight?

The questionnaire developed by the French Federation of Cardiology (FFC) is divided in three parties to determine the state of his heart:

  • My profile : age, sex, weight, height, heredity
  • My lifestyle (risk factors): tobacco, diet, stress, alcohol, physical activity
  • My other risk factors: high blood pressure, increased cholesterol, diabetes, sleep apnea syndrome
Capture of the FFC Cardiovascular Health Test – February 2023 © FFC

What do the results say?

Depending on the information known and provided, the user receives the balance sheet of his cardiovascular health and associated risks. A feature makes it possible to modify certain information in order to project oneself on the beneficial evolution for the heart of a change in behavior. For example, if I quit smoking, I reduce my risk by X percent.

► If the user knows his systolic blood pressure, his cholesterol level (total and HDL) and can answer the questions then the test is accurate and gives a percentage risk at 10 years of occurrence of death of cardiovascular origin, myocardial infarction or stroke

►If the user does not know these measurements but answers the questions, then the result is qualitative: low, intermediate or high risk of developing cardiovascular disease.

Sources:

“How’s your heart? If it’s not done yet, there’s still time to test yourself online!” Press release, FFC, February 1, 2023.

“Cardiovascular diseases: to change, you have to test yourself!”, September 22, 2022, French Federation of Cardiology.

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