Understand Your Cardiovascular Health with The Grimm Meter

Cardiovascular disease continues to be the number one killer of American men and women on an annual basis. Nearly one-third of all deaths in the United States can be directly linked to some form of cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this website is to help you understand exactly what your level of risk is for dying from cardiovascular disease during the next twenty years.

The key is the ability to understand the true meaning of all your test results combined. It is not enough to look at one reading, such as blood pressure or cholesterol, as the determining factor for your overall cardiovascular health. For most doctors, a series of “high normal” readings will not generally send up any red flags with regard to your cardiovascular disease risk. Many patients with multiple “high normal” readings could go completely untreated.

In order to assess your true risk for cardiovascular disease you need to consider the combined effect of each individual reading. The truth is; if several of your readings are in the “high normal” range you could be at greater risk than a person who has just one official “high” reading.

The Grimm Meter

The Grimm Meter is a circular slide rule that gives you immediate and concrete feedback on your true risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke in the next twenty years. The Grimm Meter provides extremely accurate, evidence-based information about how five cardiovascular measures (age, systolic blood pressure, HDL “good” cholesterol, LDL “bad” cholesterol, smoking and diabetes) combine to produce “absolute risk,” which is the likelihood that you will die of heart attack or stroke some time over the next twenty years.

The Grimm Meter can also show you, in very simple terms, how changes in your key indicators, like lowering your blood pressure or decreasing your “bad” cholesterol, can decrease your chances of dying from cardiovascular disease. Armed with this knowledge you can have much more meaningful conversations with your physician about what lifestyle changes you can make to minimize your risk.

Most doctors still believe a patient must have one or more highly elevated risk factors to be in danger and in need of treatment. The fact is that each individual risk factor comes with its own unique health impact that, when combined with the other risk factor measurements, add up to a cumulative risk of heart attack or stroke. This research has been validated by many different research initiatives including the Framingham Heart Study. Many physicians are still not aware of our work and we encourage you to discuss everything you learn from the Grimm Meter with your doctor.

Using the Grimm Meter, Doctors can ensure they are offering proper treatment and patients can remain better informed and ensure they are not under treated for possible cardiovascular disease. Hypertension treated properly could reduce cardiovascular disease by up to 60% globally.

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