your healthy heart score
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Your Healthy Heart Score
012015
Member brochure
The Healthy Heart Score gives you an indication of how healthy your heart is. It predicts your risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in the next 10 years.
What is a Healthy Heart Score?
The scores:
How is your Healthy Heart Score calculated?
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Green Amber Red
Low risk of heart disease compared to peers in the same age and gender group.
Moderate risk of heart disease compared to peers in the same age and gender group.
High risk of heart disease compared to peers in the same age and gender group.
1 2Total Cholesterol(mg/dl) (mmol/L)
<160 ≤4.14
160-199 4.15-5.17
200-239 5.18-6.21
240-279 6.22-7.24
≥280 ≥7.25
HDL - Cholesterol(mg/dl) (mmol/L)
<35 ≤0.90
35-44 0.91-1.16
45-49 1.17-1.29
50-59 1.30-1.55
≥60 ≥1.56
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Blood PressureSystolic (mmHg) Diastolic (mmHg)
<80 80-84 85-89 90-99 ≥100
<120
120-129
130-139
140-159
≥160
4Diabetes
YES
NO
5Smoker
YES
NO
The Healthy Heart Score is calculated based on the results of your Health Assessment (cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes and smoking status), and takes your gender and age into account to predict your risk of coronary heart disease.
Some Healthy Heart Score examples
Good work! Ensure you maintain your levels to remain on Green status.
50yr old female
Total cholesterol: 4.14HDL cholesterol: 1.6Blood pressure: 115/75Glucose: 7 (Ensure this remains below 7.8)
Smoker: No
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The Healthy Heart Score will be calculated once you have completed your health assessment.
Go to http://www.momentum.co.za/multiply to view your score.
40yr old male 1.2
125/80
30yr old female
Achieve Green status by improving the following levels:...
Total cholesterol: 5.17HDL cholesterol: 0.95Blood pressure: 145/90Glucose: 7.2Smoker: No
Make sure you maintain all your other levels as well.
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Achieve Green status by improving the following levels:...
Make sure you maintain your total cholesterol level as well.
1150/907.5No
*Total cholesterol: 7.3HDL cholesterol: 0.8Blood pressure: 170/100Glucose: 8Smoker: Yes
Our contact details
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How to improve your Healthy Heart Score and get to Green status FAST!
Decrease your blood pressure by:
• Losing extra kilos and watching your waistline.
• Eating healthy food and maintaining an active lifestyle.
• Reducing salt in your diet.
• Limiting alcohol to two drinks per day.
• Managing work stress through proper planning and avoiding office politics.
• Sleeping for at least 7 to 8 hours a night.
Lower your risk of getting diabetes by:
• Controlling your weight.
• Working your muscles more often to improve their ability to use insulin. Don’t sit down for extended periods of time.
• Reduce your sugar intake.
Stop smoking as it does this to your body:
• Robs you of some of your good cholesterol.
• Temporarily raises your blood pressure.
• Increases the blood’s clotting chance.
• Makes it more difficult to exercise.
Control your cholesterol levels by:
• Choosing healthier fats and eating heart healthy food e.g. food rich in omega-3 fatty acids.
• Limiting the cholesterol in your food.
• Selecting whole grains.
• Eating fruits and vegetables.