System and Method for Assessing Heart Health and Communicating the Assessment to a Patient

A method for assessing a patient's heart health, the method comprising:

• obtaining information regarding the patient's race, sex, and age and regarding a plurality of personal risk factors for the patient;
• determining a CVH score for the patient;
• retrieving functional parameters based on the patient's race and sex as listed in Tables 4A-4B;
• determining a vascular age for the patient based on the patient's CVH score and the retrieved functional parameters;
• and
• providing the vascular age to the patient.

A system for assessing a patient's heart health, the system comprising:

• a computer, terminal, or other computing device accessible by a user or patient;
• a software component on or accessible from the computer, terminal or other computing device configured to (1) obtain information regarding the patient's race, sex, and age;
• (2) obtain information regarding a plurality of personal risk factors for the patient;
• (3) determine a CVH score for the patient;
• (4) retrieve functional parameters based on the patient's race and sex;
• (5) determine a vascular age for the patient based on the patient's CVH score and the retrieved functional parameters;
• (6) provide the vascular age to the patient;
• and (7) optionally provide health information to the user or patient;
• one or more database systems or data storage systems for storing ideal values for each risk factor, functional parameters based on race and sex as listed in Tables 4A-4B, optionally previously obtained information regarding the personal risk factors for the patient, optionally previously determined CVH score, optionally previously determined vascular age, optionally health information, or a combination thereof.