HEART RESERVE · EXPERIMENTAL, UNVALIDATED RESEARCH TOOL

Explore a heart-age
comparison.

Use your blood pressure and cholesterol results to explore a heart-age comparison.

Ages 30–74 · Free · No account needed

A research preview. Not a pregnancy-adjusted score.

This uses the 2008 Framingham equation. Pregnancy and menopause history do not change its number. It is not a biological heart age, diagnosis or treatment recommendation, and has not been clinically validated as a HEART RESERVE product.

Your entries stay in this tab and are not saved automatically or sent to HEART RESERVE. Your Heart Story stays separate.

Clinical risk assessment is a separate conversation.

This experimental calculator is not a validated HEART RESERVE clinical risk assessment. It does not guide your Heart Story, visit plan or follow-up. Ask your clinician which validated risk assessment applies to you; a low comparison age cannot rule out disease.

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The example does not fill in or replace your answers.

Have your results nearby

You will need your age, total and HDL cholesterol in mg/dL, and both blood-pressure numbers. If you do not have these, try the fictional example or prepare your Heart Story (opens in a new tab). Do not guess missing values.

1. Check whether this preview fits

For new or severe chest pain, severe trouble breathing, fainting or stroke symptoms, call 911 or your local emergency number. This preview cannot assess symptoms.

Are you having any of those urgent symptoms now?Are you pregnant, possibly pregnant, or within 12 months after a pregnancy?This preview withholds an estimate in these situations.Have you been diagnosed with cardiovascular disease?Includes heart attack, stroke or TIA, angina, heart failure or cardiomyopathy (including pregnancy-related), or peripheral artery disease.

Your cholesterol and blood-pressure fields appear after these three questions. Blank answers are not treated as ‘No.’

Your history belongs in the conversation.

A smaller number does not rule out disease or erase pregnancy-related risk. Keep pregnancy complications, PCOS (called PMOS in the new AHA guidance) and menopause timing in your Heart Story, alongside your questions and follow-up.

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Methods, sources and limitations

What does the October 2026 AHA guidance change?

The new life-stage guidance supports discussing menstrual, pregnancy, menopause and emotional health alongside cardiovascular risk. It does not clinically validate this preview or our pregnancy-informed research model. We have not added pregnancy or menopause adjustments to the number shown here.

Which risk tool should I discuss with my clinician?

This preview uses an older equation to illustrate comparison age. For current cardiovascular risk assessment, ask your clinician whether the AHA PREVENT equations (opens in a new tab) fit your situation. PREVENT uses cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic factors. It is a different model, and its estimates should not be treated as interchangeable with the result here.

Where our pregnancy-informed research stands

We have developed initial research code for an independent pregnancy-informed model. Its clinical weights and comparison profile still need to be fitted using patient outcomes and independently validated. It cannot yet produce a patient estimate and is not the model used on this page.

What is calculated?

The lipid-based 2008 Framingham model estimates 10-year general cardiovascular disease risk using age, its published sex category, total and HDL cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, blood-pressure treatment, smoking and diabetes. Its outcome includes heart failure, stroke and coronary and peripheral artery disease. It was developed in adults aged 30–74 without cardiovascular disease.

The comparison age matches that estimate to the same equation category with total cholesterol 180 mg/dL, HDL 45 mg/dL, untreated systolic pressure 125 mmHg, no smoking and no diabetes. That fixed profile is an implementation choice retained from our prototype. Changing the profile changes the comparison age. Results outside ages 30–74 are labeled outside the range, without extrapolation.

This older model may not reflect current risk accurately for every population. The comparison age itself has not been clinically validated. Reproductive history, Lp(a), ApoB and kidney measures do not enter this equation. Do not use the result to start, stop or change treatment.

This preview additionally withholds results during pregnancy, within 12 months after a pregnancy, for concerning symptoms, uncertain eligibility and entries outside its stated limits. These are conservative product safeguards, not a complete clinical assessment. Diastolic pressure is checked for safety but does not enter the equation.

Research preview 1 · Sources checked October 26, 2026. No endorsement by Framingham, AHA or a hospital is implied. Software checks are not clinical validation.