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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1531370" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Wow.</p><p>My actual age is 50</p><p>By tweaking things I could adjust my calculated heart age by over 10 years. but I question the validity of several of their assumptions.</p><p></p><p>there was no option to factor in Triglycerides in Cholesterol, so I think that figure/calc is deeply suspect.</p><p>they go for Total Cholesterol, with no recognition that the ratios are FAR more relevant than the total fig</p><p>there was also no option to state whether you are a controlled diabetic, or not, and nothing to assess the extent of insulin resistance.</p><p>the blood pressure treatment question is very vague - I mean, 'have you ever taken bp meds?' the possible answers for that are so varied that surely it makes the question pointless? PResumably 'yes for 3 months until I started exercising' would have different implications from 'yes, I am on 3 different meds for the last 15 years, and my bp is still uncontrolled'.</p><p></p><p>I did find it interesting that adjusting my weight from very obese to slim (a girl can wish) made astonishingly little difference compared with tweaking the (flawed) cholesterol numbers and the diabetes factors. But there is no reason for me to trust that, any more than I trust the rest of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1531370, member: 41816"] Wow. My actual age is 50 By tweaking things I could adjust my calculated heart age by over 10 years. but I question the validity of several of their assumptions. there was no option to factor in Triglycerides in Cholesterol, so I think that figure/calc is deeply suspect. they go for Total Cholesterol, with no recognition that the ratios are FAR more relevant than the total fig there was also no option to state whether you are a controlled diabetic, or not, and nothing to assess the extent of insulin resistance. the blood pressure treatment question is very vague - I mean, 'have you ever taken bp meds?' the possible answers for that are so varied that surely it makes the question pointless? PResumably 'yes for 3 months until I started exercising' would have different implications from 'yes, I am on 3 different meds for the last 15 years, and my bp is still uncontrolled'. I did find it interesting that adjusting my weight from very obese to slim (a girl can wish) made astonishingly little difference compared with tweaking the (flawed) cholesterol numbers and the diabetes factors. But there is no reason for me to trust that, any more than I trust the rest of it. [/QUOTE]
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