Personal health check

With all the pressures of modern life, staying healthy can be a challenge. But if you learn to recognise risks to your health you have a much better chance of keeping fitter and living longer. Use our personal health check calculators to help gauge whether you need to take action on eating and exercise. And, if you're a smoker, you can work out how much money you'll save by quitting.

Beating heart disease

Heart and circulatory disease is the UK's biggest killer. Our expert tells you how to manage your condition and reduce your risk of heart attack.

Heart disease calculator

Heart disease is one of the country's biggest killers and many factors can increase your risk. What's more, the risk factors don't just add up. As you have more of them, their effect multiplies. The good news is that if you have a lot of risk factors, then acting to reduce one or two of them could make a big cut to your risk. Check your risk level here.

There are approximately 270,000 heart attacks every year in the UK

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Cardiovascular disease risk survey
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Do you have a family history of coronary artery disease (parent, brother, sister or child diagnosed with coronary disease or had heart attack before they were 60 years old)?
Do you have diabetes?
Do you have high blood pressure?
Have you smoked within the last 5 years?
Have you been found to have a high cholesterol level?
If you are male, is your waist measurement under 102 cms (40 in)?
If you are female,  is your waist measurement under 88 cms (35 in)?
Are you physically active (do you feel able to run for a bus and do the equivalent of 30 minutes brisk walking 5 times a week)?
Do you have a healthy diet (for example 5 portions a day of fresh fruit or vegetables, fish at least once a week, high in wholegrains, low in salt and fats, particularly saturated fats)?

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