What age is your heart?

[Brandane]

https://www.nhs.uk/health-assessment-tools/calculate-your-heart-age

To properly use this test you need to enter personal details including height, weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol level.

My result shows that my heart age is similar to that of a healthy 95 year old!
(I am 62 but slightly overweight, have atrial fibrillation, slightly high blood pressure, slightly high cholesterol, and a bad family history of heart disease).
Surprisingly the test does not ask anything about exercise regime, which is my only plus point.

 

[sevenfourate]

I'm 53. And dont know my Cholesterol. So its averaged my Heart out at 56.

However my Heart age could be as low as 50 or as high as 63 if my Cholesterol is low or high accordingly.

 

[Drago]

61.

I stumbled at that ridiculous BMI calculation again,

 

[Punkawallah]

I gave up on this sort of thing after my brother and I tried that BMI thing when it appeared in the News of the World (should have known, really). He was working to be a competitive cyclist, I was training for a swimming competition; he was ‘overweight’, I was ‘obese’. We sort of knew then it was a crock. I suspect this ‘heart age’ thing is similar.
Don’t worry. Be happy.

 

[sevenfourate]

I gave up on this sort of thing after my brother and I tried that BMI thing when it appeared in the News of the World (should have known, really). He was working to be a competitive cyclist, I was training for a swimming competition; he was ‘overweight’, I was ‘obese’. We sort of knew then it was a crock. I suspect this ‘heart age’ thing is similar.
Don’t worry. Be happy.

^^^^

Like my Sister-in-Law who's skinny as a rake (You'd think was was ill in all honesty - unless you know how normally she eats) - and yet was was told at a Doctors she was 'overweight'.

She's mentally sane and laughed this off. Imagine some of the appearence driven, peer pressured, stress riddled youth of today hearing that. The consequences could be lethal. Literally.......

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

My Oura ring has been tracking me and my health for around a year now. It’s data tells me my heart health is 5 years younger than I am.

I’d trust that over some random online test.

 

[Drago]

I gave up on this sort of thing after my brother and I tried that BMI thing when it appeared in the News of the World (should have known, really). He was working to be a competitive cyclist, I was training for a swimming competition; he was ‘overweight’, I was ‘obese’. We sort of knew then it was a crock. I suspect this ‘heart age’ thing is similar.
Don’t worry. Be happy.

Much the same here. Been lifting weights all my adult life and still do. If I didn't I'd be 20kg lighter.

BMI is only intended for use with sedentary subjects, and even then the basic data that underpins the system was gathered in the late 1940s when food rationing was still a thing.

 

[dicko]

78

 

[Brandane]

I’d trust that over some random online test

The worrying part is that it isn't "some random online test", it's the NHS website. So is this the sort of thing they are officially using to scare us shitless and push the blood pressure even higher?

 

[Brandane]

78

Which is good if you are 80, but not if you are 50. I feel there is a vital piece of information missing from your post!