Your Heart Forecast
For health professionals
Communicating cardiovascular risk to your patients and encouraging them to make important lifestyle changes remains a challenge.
The Your Heart Forecast tool was designed by Drs Sue Wells and Andrew Kerr, at the University of Auckland, and supported by the Heart Foundation, to help doctors and nurses address that challenge using a graphic story.
The graphic story shows patients:
- Their current risk (where they are now)
- How it relates to a peer with ideal risk factor control and same CVD risk (their cardiovascular age)
- What would happen to their risk as they get older and made no changes (their heart forecast), and conversely
- What would happen to their risk if they made healthy lifestyle changes, for example, stopped smoking.
Your Heart Forecast has been provided free of charge by the Heart Foundation.
Click here to go to the http://www.yourheartforecast.org.nz/ website and use the tool.
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