HEART HEALTH CHECKS
Every 12 minutes an Australian dies from heart, stroke or blood vessel disease. Most heart attacks and strokes are preventable.
A Heart Health Check is a regular checkup performed by your doctor. A Heart Health Check helps you to understand your risk factors for heart disease and estimate how likely you are to have a heart attack or stroke in the next five years.
Heart Health Check will help to prevent heart attack and stroke.
Your doctor will start your check by talking with you about your heart disease risk factors:
Blood pressure
Cholesterol level
Diet
Exercise
Smoking
Other risk factors for heart disease like your personal and family health history.
Once your doctor knows your risk factors, they will enter this information into a web-based calculator to understand your risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next five years .
Your calculator result will show whether you are at low, medium or high risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
Depending on your result, your doctor may encourage you to keep doing what you are doing, or give you advice, information and support to make heart-healthy changes to your lifestyle, including changing your diet, doing more physical activity, quitting smoking or reducing the amount of alcohol you drink.
If your risk level is high, your doctor may prescribe medication to lower your blood pressure or cholesterol, or both.
Heart Age Calculator is a simple 2-minute test that helps you to understand your risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
You can discuss your Heart Age Calculator results with your regular doctor; this is especially important if your heart age is higher than your actual age.
https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/your-heart/know-your-risks/heart-age-calculator
For more information, please see our doctors at
🏡 181 Edgars Rd, Thomastown 3074
☎️ 03 9464 7997
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