Monitor Your Own Risk – Cardiac & Stroke

Most of us leave monitoring our health to someone else. Take cardiac risk detection into your own hands and catch your risk before it catches you.

16%

of all deaths worldwide are caused by ischaemic heart disease, the biggest killer on earth.

Stroke comes second, at around 11%.

8.9M

people died from ischaemic heart disease in 2019, up by more than 2 million since 2000.

No other leading cause of death has risen by more.

50%

of heart attacks give no warning, because the first symptom is sudden death.

Cardiac risk detection means finding out before that happens.

Cholesterol was never the whole story.

For decades, cholesterol took the blame for heart attacks and strokes. The research has moved on. What you most want to avoid is plaque building up in your arteries, and that is driven far more by metabolic syndrome than by cholesterol alone.

“Metabolic syndrome can kill you before you ever develop diabetes.”
Brendan Roach, Director and Exercise Physiologist at BodyLab

The root cause: Metabolic Syndrome

Metabolic syndrome is the #1 driver of cardiovascular disease: an umbrella term for six risk factors, including blood pressure, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, waist circumference, insulin resistance, and inflammation, that together predict risk long before disease is diagnosed.

3+

markers out of range means you have metabolic syndrome

Often years before diabetes or a cardiac event ever shows up on a routine check-up.

Do you have metabolic syndrome?

If three or more of the six markers sit outside their optimal range, you do. Enter your blood test results and the Checker shows you where each one stands, in seconds.

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Inflammation is the newest marker.

hsCRP, a blood marker for inflammation, is a precise indicator of cardiac risk, which is why it earns a place among the six.

Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease.

$117

for the core blood panel

That is roughly what lipids, fasting glucose and hsCRP, plus the blood draw fee, cost at a New Zealand lab. Adding fasting insulin completes the six.

Monitoring is your early warning.

Tracking these six markers gives you warning signs before plaque in your arteries ever causes symptoms. Ask your doctor for the tests, or take a blood form to your local lab.

BodyLab can give you a free blood form.

Invest in your life: choose the plan that's right for you

Metabolic syndrome develops over months, not overnight. A single check tells you where you stand today, but regular checks are what actually catch it moving in the wrong direction, early enough to change course.

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