Show HN: Four numbers can predict your lifetime risk of a heart attack
Hey HN!<p>This project was inspired by a personal experience I had--I put my numbers into a spreadsheet provided by the American Heart Association and found I had a 50% lifetime risk of a heart attack. Yikes!<p>I've gone to regular check-ups all my life and always been  a little outside of the cholesterol guidelines, but I never knew how seriously to take that. I didn't know you could translate those numbers into percentage chance of getting a heart attack, whether I was "high" or "low," or how much I could improve by making lifestyle changes.<p>I figured there must be other people out there who are similarly ignorant about their own health, so I built this. (Please don't take this as a substitute for going to the doctor; there are all sorts of things your doctor can tell you that a web page can't. This is just for education!)<p>Please let me know if you have questions!