Heart and Metabolic Health Check

Every score comes from a published, validated questionnaire that is free to use. We have not changed how any of them is scored.

• Life's Essential 8 (American Heart Association, 2022)
• CBAC risk score (Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India)
• Body mass index with Asian cut-offs
• Waist-to-height ratio

Life's Essential 8 was published by the American Heart Association in 2022. It averages eight parts (diet, activity, nicotine, sleep, BMI, cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure), each scored 0 to 100. We use the Asian BMI cut-offs the method gives for Asian adults. The diet part uses the American Heart Association's 16-question MEPA screener; we added Indian examples (dal, roti, paneer, ghee) to the food groups but kept its scoring. Because it was written for American diets, a vegetarian Indian diet can score lower on items such as fish and olive oil than its real quality deserves; your doctor will read it with that in mind.

If you do not know your blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar, the score is worked out from the parts you do know and marked as provisional, and the report lists the tests to get.

The CBAC risk score is the Government of India's Community Based Assessment Checklist (revised 2018), used by ASHA workers for everyone over 30.

These are screening tools. They point to what needs a closer look; they do not diagnose. The report is made on your device and is not sent to the hospital.