Taking Your Blood Pressure at Home

Taking Your Blood Pressure at Home

Health Calculator, Heart Health

Why take your blood pressure at home? Knowing your blood pressure is one indicator of heart health. It is important because high blood pressure is a silent, symptomless disease. Which means if you do not know it’s high unless you get it checked. Previously, that meant...
Young at Heart

Young at Heart

Ageing Well, Heart Health

Want to know how young your heart is? Public Health England has created an online calculator to work out what your heart age is compared to your actual age. You can take the quiz here. It asks for your blood pressure and cholesterol levels. If you do not know them,...
Love Your Heart!

Love Your Heart!

Heart Health

Some of our goals can be challenging to complete, others are challenging in the manner of tracking them. Blood pressure falls into the later. It is one of our Goldilocks goals where we don’t want it to be too high and we don’t want it to be low either. It has to be...