I see that Nanny and her state broadcaster are heavily pushing her heart age test (that predicts how long you will live without having a heart attack, and gives your heart its own age).
To amuse myself I took the test, and was told that my heart is 3 years older than my real age and that I will live until 79 without having a stroke or heart attack.
All very gemusing, except for the following points:
1 It asked me if I know my blood pressure, I don't (therefore how can the test be valid?).
2 It asked me if I know my cholesterol, I don't (ditto point above about validity!).
3 It informed me that my BMI is 1.1 points above "normal" and, as such, I am overweight. As we all know BMI is bollocks, I work out with weights etc on a regular basis; as such my muscle mass is higher than "average".
4 It offered me the choice of seeing what would happen if I "lost weight"..guess what..nothing at all!
The test is bollocks, in short, as I don't know my cholesterol nor my blood pressure it still tells me to reduce them; and even when I did on the test I came out with only one extra year of not having a heart attack.
A farking joke!
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ReplyDeleteI have an additional observation for you.
You need to get out more Ken!
I did it for a laugh. BMI is a useless measurement. You need a muscle to fat ratio via conductivity. Most people don't know their cholesterol nor their blood pressure. I put my BP as 120 which it is and is average systolic pressure. They said it was too high. My BMI though was just fine. Cholesterol is irrelevant it's LDL/HDL ratio here. Scored 83 on the age without having an MI or Stroke. There are too many flaws in this for accuracy.
ReplyDeleteDear Mr Frost
ReplyDeleteAfter much fiddling with the figures my heart appeared to be 3 to 4 years older than me, even after entering 'good' figures cholesterol (which I believe to be reasonably accurate) and for blood pressure.
I take blood pressure medication. I changed the answer for: Have you ever received blood pressure treatment? from Yes to No and put in my high blood pressure figure. My heart age dropped to my actual age.
Conclusion - blood pressure medication is bad for your health.
Or the whole thing is a load of bollocks.
Or both.
DP
My heart's exactly the same age as me. And no amount of public health bollocks-speak is going to change that.
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