What is a Clinical Calculator?
It is a computer-based program who performs arithmetic operations related to clinical/medical questions, like
What is your body mass index ---obesity index?
What is your risk for a cardiac event?
What is your breast cancer risk?
Calculator programs let you perform simple math calculations without leaving the computer.
Medicine is not an exact science, like Engineering, We work on probabilities, like:
What is your chance of getting sick from this?
What is your probability you will suffer from that?
So our best work is to reduce your risk/exposition to diseases. Remember that Preventative Medicine is the best and the cheapest Medicine. 50% of all deaths are preventable: 20% are linked to tobacco, 15% are related to wrong diet and activity patterns. Regular screening of disease you are on risk according to your age, weight, history family and factors like smoking or high cholesterol give us the chance for early detection and treatment. These are very friendly clinical calculator from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the National Cancer Institute, from U.S.A. You can link to these page and follow directions…
CHECK YOU OBESITY---check your body mass index:
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 http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/calc-bmi.htm
How does BMI relate to health?
The BMI ranges are based on the effect body weight has on disease and death. As BMI increases, the risk for some disease increases. Some common conditions related to overweight and obesity include
• Premature death
• Cardiovascular disease
• High blood pressure
• Osteoarthritis
• Some cancers
• Diabetes
BMI is only one of many factors used to predict risk for disease. BMI cannot be used to tell a person if he/she has a disease such as diabetes or cancer. It is important to remember that weight is only one factor that is related to disease.
BMI - Body Mass Index: BMI for Adults: What Does This All Mean?
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/bmi-adult.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/bmi-means.htm
I strongly recommend reading this section: PORTION DISTORTION
“We hope you find Portion Distortion insightful and fun. We also hope that next time you eat on the run, you will think twice about the food portions offered to you”
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/portion/
Risk Assessment Tool for Estimating Your 10-year Risk of Having a Heart Attack
http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/atpiii/calculator.asp
Consult promptly your doctor if your risk is more than >/=10% particularly with one of this risk factor:
• Cigarette smoking
• High blood pressure (140/90 mmHg or higher or on blood pressure medication)
• Low HDL cholesterol (less than 40 mg/dL)*
• Family history of early heart disease (heart disease in father or brother before
age 55; heart disease in mother or sister before age 65)
• Age (men 45 years or older; women 55 years or older)
Useful links:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
health/public/heart/chol/hbc_what.htm
An interactive tool
to measure a woman’s risk
of invasive breast cancer
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) Biostatistics Canter have developed this Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool, a Web tool that allows a health professional to project a woman’s individualized estimate of risk for invasive breast cancer over a 5-year period and over her lifetime (to age 90).
http://bcra.nci.nih.gov/brc/
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