Heart health score
The American Heart Association's score out of 100. People with high scores lived years longer.
What you'll need
- Answer 16 quick questions about what you usually eat.
- Enter your weekly exercise, sleep and smoking.
- Add your weight and height, and your latest blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar if you know them. Parts you skip are left out of the score, and the page says so.
Your result
Fill in from a lab report
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What the research found
The score, Life's Essential 8, averages eight things: diet, activity, nicotine, sleep, weight, cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure. In a national US survey, 50-year-olds with a high score (80 or more) could expect to live another 36.2 years. With a moderate score it was 32.9 years, and with a low score (under 50) 27.3 years: about 9 years more for high than low.
Studied in: 23,003 US adults aged 20 to 79 in a national health survey.
- Lloyd-Jones DM et al. Life's Essential 8: updating and enhancing the American Heart Association's construct of cardiovascular health. Circulation. 2022;146(5):e18-43. PubMed
- Ma H et al. Cardiovascular health and life expectancy among adults in the United States. Circulation. 2023;147(15):1137-46. PubMed
- Diet questions: the Mediterranean Eating Pattern for Americans screener (MEPA). Cerwinske LA et al. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2017;30(5):596-603. PubMed