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Dr Mike MacDonald

Preventive Cardiology · Longevity

Tools & calculators

Tools & Calculators

Free, evidence-based tools to help you make sense of your numbers and have better conversations with your own doctor. Pick one to get started.

Tools & calculators

Make sense of your numbers

Free, evidence-based calculators built from published medical research — no sign-up, no data stored, nothing leaves your browser. Use them to understand your results and have a better conversation with your own doctor.

Flagship

Heart Age & CV Risk

Turn your blood pressure and cholesterol into a heart age and a 10-year cardiovascular risk, using the validated Framingham model.

Calculate my heart age →

New · 2026 guideline

10 & 30-Year Risk (PREVENT)

Your 10-year and 30-year cardiovascular risk on the AHA PREVENT equations — the race-free model now used in US guidelines, and the only one giving a true long-range number.

Calculate my risk →

New

Blood Pressure Category

Enter a reading and see which category it falls into — on both the US and European guidelines — with what the number actually means.

Classify a reading →

New

Cholesterol Ratios & Non-HDL

Non-HDL cholesterol, total-to-HDL and triglyceride-to-HDL ratios from your lipid panel — with the optimal ranges, in mmol/L or mg/dL.

Work out my ratios →

Cholesterol

ApoB Percentile

See where your ApoB sits on the population curve for your age and sex — and why “average for your age” isn’t the same as optimal.

Find my percentile →

Cholesterol

Estimate ApoB from a Panel

No direct ApoB result? Estimate it from the cholesterol numbers you already have, using a validated equation.

Estimate my ApoB →

New · Genetic risk

Lp(a) Converter & Risk

Convert lipoprotein(a) between nmol/L and mg/dL and see which risk band you’re in — for the inherited risk factor one in five people carry.

Convert & interpret →

New · Metabolic

Waist-to-Height & BMI

The single best everyday marker of harmful central fat — plus BMI, with the lower thresholds that apply to people of Asian descent.

Check my ratio →

Checklist

Cardiac Screening Checklist

The same starting checklist I use in clinic — what to test, when, and how often. Download it free and bring it to your appointment.

Get the checklist →

Built from published, peer-reviewed research Nothing is stored or sent — it all runs in your browser Free, with no sign-up