Understand your numbers
Calm, plain-English answers about the numbers on your blood test and blood pressure cuff. When you're ready, Cura Check puts them together into one picture.
Heart risk
- The PREVENT heart risk calculator, explained
PREVENT is the American Heart Association's newer heart risk calculator. What it measures, what your 10-year score means, why it differs from ASCVD, and a free way to run it.
- The Cura Check framework: the six numbers that matter
Cholesterol and labs
- My LDL is 160: what it means
An LDL of 160 mg/dL is in the high range. What that means for your heart, whether you need a statin, and the questions to ask your doctor, explained calmly.
- Low HDL: what it means
HDL under 40 mg/dL for men or under 50 for women is considered low. What low HDL says about heart risk, why raising it with pills doesn't help, and what does.
- Triglycerides of 200: what it means
Triglycerides of 200 mg/dL are in the high range. What raises them, how they affect heart risk, and the changes that usually bring them down fastest.
- Which blood test should you actually get?
- Lp(a): the cholesterol number your panel misses
- How to read your blood test results
Blood sugar
- My A1c is 5.9: what it means
An A1c of 5.9% is in the prediabetes range (5.7% to 6.4%). What that means, how likely it is to become diabetes, and what helps bring it down.
Blood pressure
- Blood pressure 130/80: what it means
A blood pressure of 130/80 counts as stage 1 high blood pressure under US guidelines. What that means, whether you need medicine, and how to get an accurate reading.