Coronary heart disease risk calculation.
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About Takeheart - Coronary Heart Disease Risk Calculation
Takeheart advises you and calculates your risk of developing Coronary Heart Disease.
Governments spend much money on persuading people to adopt healthy lifestyles with a particular emphasis on tobacco, alcohol, diet and exercise.
There is scope for you to assess your own risk and motivate yourself personally. A national change in lifestyle is achieved by your personal decision. They achieved it in Finland, so why not here?
Takeheart pays particular attention to:-
- The multifactorial nature of the risk
- Takeheart does the following tests on you: History, Weight and Height, Blood pressure, Peak flow rate, Cholesterol and GGT (from a finger prick), Carbon monoxide, Stress assessment .
- Quality control
- Takeheart subscribes to the Wolfson External Quality Assurance Scheme. There are quality assurance routines incorporated into the software. The operators are qualified.
- Counselling
- This is done by entering information gathered from you and your test results into a lap top computer. By means of an expert system resident in the computer a report is written for you to take away (515).
The report is authoritative, in ordinary language, in depth and seven or eight A4 pages long.
Takeheart functions in several ways:-
- You can come to us.
- Takeheart comes to you.
- By Email
The cost? £80 and about half an hour of your time.
£5 by E-mail
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