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Heart Habits Check

Eight questions, one for each factor the American Heart Association calls Life's Essential 8. Answer honestly: nothing you enter leaves this page, and there is no score at the end. What you get is a factor-by-factor picture, with the ones worth raising at your next appointment clearly marked.

When you are done, use Copy result or Print to take the summary with you to your doctor.

  1. 1.Which is closest to how you eat on most days?

    Think about your ordinary week, not your best day.

  2. 2.How much do you move in a normal week?

    Brisk walking counts as moderate activity. WHO suggests 150 to 300 minutes of moderate activity per week.

  3. 3.Where do you stand with smoking and vaping?
  4. 4.How many hours of sleep do you actually get on most nights?
  5. 5.How aware are you of where your weight and waistline sit?

    This asks about awareness, not about a number being "good" or "bad".

  6. 6.When did you last have a cholesterol (lipid) blood test?
  7. 7.When was your blood sugar last checked?

    Diabetes and prediabetes are major heart risk factors, and Mauritius has some of the highest rates in the world.

  8. 8.When was your blood pressure last measured?
0 of 8 answered

Sources

  1. Life's Essential 8 American Heart Association, 2022The eight factors this check is organized around.
  2. Physical activity fact sheet World Health Organization, 2024Source of the 150-300 minutes per week reference.
  3. Cardiovascular disease prevention NHS, 2023

Last reviewed: 2026-07-16

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Why no score?

Real cardiovascular risk calculators, the kind cardiologists use, need measured values: your actual blood pressure, your actual cholesterol, your age and history, interpreted by someone trained to weigh them. A website quiz that hands out a percentage is pretending to be that tool without the inputs or the training, and a falsely reassuring number is more dangerous than no number.

So this check does something more honest. It walks the same eight factors the American Heart Association uses to describe heart health, and tells you which ones are in good shape, which are building, and which are genuinely worth a conversation with a doctor. The factors marked for conversation are not bad news: every one of them is either measurable in minutes or changeable with support.

Written against AHA Life's Essential 8, WHO activity guidance and NHS prevention advice. Last reviewed 2026-07-16.