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Your Midlife Heart Story

What to bring to your next visit: one place for the history, numbers, symptoms, testing, and capacity changes that are often scattered across years of care.

HEART RESERVE

Your Midlife Heart Story

What to bring to your next visit

Fill in what you know. Leave what you do not. This page does not score risk, diagnose a condition, or recommend treatment. Its job is to help you and your clinician see the story more clearly.

NameDate
HISTORY

What should not disappear from the timeline?

  • Pregnancy history and complications
  • Menopause stage or last menstrual period
  • Family cardiovascular history
  • Major diagnoses, procedures, illness, or medication changes
FLOW

What do the arteries and delivery system need us to know?

  • Blood-pressure pattern and home technique
  • Lipid and blood-sugar trends
  • Known plaque, vascular findings, or circulation concerns
  • Smoking history and other relevant risk factors
BEAT

What rhythm story is actually happening?

  • Palpitations, racing, skipped beats, or slow pulse
  • Timing, duration, triggers, and associated symptoms
  • Prior EKG or rhythm-monitor results
  • Sleep, thyroid, anemia, hydration, and medication context
PUMP

What is known about structure and function?

  • Prior echocardiogram, valve, chamber, or heart-muscle findings
  • Blood-pressure load and relevant follow-up
  • Swelling, breathing changes, or symptoms when lying down
  • What prior imaging answered—and what it did not
POWER

What can the whole system deliver now?

  • Changes in stairs, walking pace, exercise, or carrying
  • Strength, grip, balance, and getting up from the floor
  • Recovery after effort, illness, or poor sleep
  • A safe familiar task you could repeat later
PRIORITY + PROOF

What deserves first place, and how will we know it helped?

  • The one question I most want answered
  • The first priority we choose together
  • The action or treatment that fits
  • The evidence, timeframe, and reason to return sooner