Heart Attack Risk
Data Type | Health Risk |
Scans Required | FaceScan |
Validation | Based on the Framingham Risk Score. Framingham Heart Study |
A heart attack occurs when a coronary artery, which supplies blood to your heart, becomes blocked. This stops the blood flow and reduces the amount of oxygen that gets to your heart muscle. This causes the most common heart attack symptoms, which are chest discomfort or pain and can spread to your arms, neck, jaw or back. Unlike angina this discomfort often last for longer than 10 minutes
Heart Attack Risk is the likelihood (expressed in percentage) for you to experience a heart attack within the next 10 years. This risk score is based upon the Framingham Method and derived from an algorithm developed based on data form prospective studies that followed up participants in terms of their cardiovascular health for over ten years.
Risk Categories
Risk Category | 11-Year Risk (%) |
◉ Low | 0.00 to < 1.65 |
◉ Low-Medium | 1.65 to < 2.48 |
◉ Medium | 2.48 to < 3.30 |
◉ High | 3.30 to < 6.60 |
◉ Very High | 6.60 to < 33.00 |
