Are you at risk?
Heart disease, cancer and all-cause mortality
There are well known risk factors that predict our risk of potentially fatal conditions. Our family history, smoking and drinking habits, weight, state of cardio-respiratory fitness, the presence of diabetes or raised blood pressure and our blood lipid profile can all be used to identify degrees of risk.
Changes in your sex life can predict heart problems
The Sexual Function Questionnaire gives you a snapshot of how your sexual activity is now. It can help to pinpoint the origin of any problems and when taken again after some form of treatment will indicate the level of improvement in an objective fashion.
When you have answered all the questions you should get a confirmation email (or text if you prefer) to confirm a line of communication. We shall send you a report within the next 12 hours.
Is there a family history of heart disease?
If there is a family history of premature coronary heart disease (CHD) then men have a 2.6 fold increase in the likelihood of a CHD event (eg a heart attack) and women a 2.3 fold risk increase.
This was shown in the MESA study (Circulation. 2007; 116;619-626) in the USA.
Are you either fat or unfit?
What is the increased cancer risk?
Cardiorespiratory fitness can be defined by a treadmill test. Being fit is more important than being lean when ti comes to mortality. In the Aerobic Center Longitudinal Study in Dallas a total of 38.410 men were tested over a 30-year period and their fitness compared with their mortality statistics.
If we take body fat percentages as an example the mortality rates for the 4 categories of lean-fit (lean <25% fat); lean-unfit (fat>25% body fat) and fat-unfit were shown below. Yes the worst case was being fat and unfit – double the mortality from cancer than the lean and fit.
However note that the fit but fat had a lower risk than the lean and unfit! (Obesity (Silver Spring.) 2007 Dec;15(12):3140-9.)
