Skip to main content
Request a quoteQuote

Heart age calculator

Estimate your risk of cardiovascular disease over the next 10 years, and your heart age, from your age, blood pressure, cholesterol and a few lifestyle facts. The calculation runs in your browser only; the values you type are not sent to the server.

10,409 people have taken this test

Your health information

Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.

Accepted range: 20-79

The upper value; for a reading of 120/80, enter 120.

Blood Test Data - For More Accurate Results (Optional)
Entering cholesterol values provides more accurate results. If not entered, estimated population-average cholesterol is used (lower accuracy).
This tool gives an estimate from published population models. It does not diagnose and does not replace a physician's assessment.

What does it ask for?

The calculation needs the following; the cholesterol values are optional.

  • Sex and age
  • Height and weight (for the body mass index)
  • Systolic blood pressure, and whether you take blood pressure medication
  • Smoking, diabetes and known cardiovascular disease
  • Optional: total cholesterol and HDL cholesterol. Without them, average values for your age and sex are used and the result is less precise.

How is it calculated?

The risk comes from the SCORE2 model (under 70) and the SCORE2-OP model (70 and over), published in 2021 by a working group of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), with the calibration for the high-risk region used for Türkiye. Your heart age is the age at which a person of the same sex with an ideal profile reaches the same risk as you. The ideal profile: non-smoker, no diabetes, systolic blood pressure 120 mmHg, total cholesterol 4.0 mmol/L and HDL cholesterol 1.6 mmol/L. The heart age is searched between 30 and 90. The risk bands (low, moderate, high and very high risk) are this calculator's own bands; they are not ESC categories. The bands are set by two limits that depend on age: 2.5 and 7.5 percent under 50, 5 and 10 percent at 50 to 69, and 7.5 and 15 percent at 70 and over. A risk below the first limit is low, below the second limit moderate, below twice the second limit high, and anything higher is very high.

How to read the result

The result is an estimate from published population models. It is not a diagnosis and does not replace a physician's assessment. SCORE2 was developed for people aged 40 to 69 without previous cardiovascular disease; SCORE2-OP for people over 70 without cardiovascular disease. This calculator accepts ages 20 to 79; below 40 the result lies outside the range the model was developed for. People with diabetes can use it too, but according to the ESC guidelines the SCORE2 charts do not apply to high-risk conditions such as diabetes, so for them the estimate may understate the risk. For people with known cardiovascular disease the model is not used: the result shows no risk percentage, no risk band and no heart age. Blood pressure medication is not a separate value in the model; the measured systolic pressure is used.

Your data

The values you enter and your result stay in your browser: they are not sent to the server, not stored, and no cookies or browser storage are used. They disappear when you reload the page. The server only counts that a calculation was completed; no personal information goes into that count. The share picture and the PDF report are made in your browser when you press the button and are saved to your device or handed to your device's share menu; they contain your heart age and risk percentage, and you decide who receives them. They are not sent to the server.

Sources

The calculation and the advice refer to these sources.

  1. SCORE2 risk model (2021). SCORE2 working group and ESC Cardiovascular risk collaboration. SCORE2 risk prediction algorithms: new models to estimate 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease in Europe. Eur Heart J 2021;42(25):2439-2454. The 10-year cardiovascular risk model for people under 70.
  2. SCORE2-OP risk model (2021). SCORE2-OP working group and ESC Cardiovascular risk collaboration. SCORE2-OP risk prediction algorithms: estimating incident cardiovascular event risk in older persons in four geographical risk regions. Eur Heart J 2021;42(25):2455-2467. The same kind of model adapted to people aged 70 and over.
  3. 2021 ESC prevention guidelines. Visseren FLJ, Mach F, Smulders YM, et al. 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice. Eur Heart J 2021;42(34):3227-3337. That the SCORE2 charts do not apply to high-risk conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes; that people with documented cardiovascular disease are, on average, at very high risk.
  4. The heart-age concept (CDC, 2015). Yang Q, et al. Vital Signs: Predicted Heart Age and Racial Disparities in Heart Age Among U.S. Adults at the State Level. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64(34):950-958. Heart age: the age of a person's vascular system predicted from their risk-factor profile, compared with their actual age. The comparison profile has no smoking, no diabetes and a systolic pressure of 120 mmHg or less; the cholesterol values are not from this publication.
  5. Heart age in a population (2019). Tabaei BP, Chamany S, Perlman S, et al. Heart Age, Cardiovascular Disease Risk, and Disparities by Sex and Race/Ethnicity Among New York City Adults. Public Health Rep 2019;134(4):404-416. Use of heart age in a population study.
  6. Limits of heart-age tests (2019). Bonner C, McKinn S, McCaffrey K, et al. Is the NHS 'Heart Age Test' too much medicine? Br J Gen Pract 2019;69(688):560-561. A commentary on whether a heart-age test is needed and what its limits are.
  7. A heart-age calculator (Heart Foundation). Heart Foundation (Australia). Heart Age Calculator. A public heart-age calculator, for comparing the method.
  8. Physical activity (WHO). World Health Organization. Physical activity (fact sheet). At least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity a week for adults.
  9. Life's Essential 8: sleep (AHA, 2022). Lloyd-Jones DM, Allen NB, Anderson CAM, et al. Life's Essential 8: Updating and Enhancing the American Heart Association's Construct of Cardiovascular Health: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association. Circulation 2022;146(5):e18-e43. The population health value of about 7 to 8 hours of habitual sleep for adults.
  10. Benefits of quitting smoking (CDC). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Benefits of Quitting Smoking. Quitting smoking lowers cardiovascular risk; the risk of a heart attack drops sharply 1 to 2 years after quitting.
  11. Obesity and overweight (WHO). World Health Organization. Obesity and overweight (fact sheet). The definitions of overweight (body mass index 25 or more) and obesity (30 or more) in adults.
  12. Blood lipids among Turks (Onat, 2004). Onat A. Lipids, Lipoproteins and Apolipoproteins Among Turks, and Impact on Coronary Heart Disease. Anadolu Kardiyol Derg 2004;4(3):236-245. Average total cholesterol in Türkiye by age and sex; the estimated values used when no blood values are entered are close to these averages.
  13. ALO 171 smoking cessation helpline. T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı. ALO 171 Sigara Bırakma Danışma Hattı. The Ministry of Health's smoking cessation helpline.

Cardisiography

To learn about the Cardisiography test that Cardisio Türkiye offers, see the For patients page.