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Enter a week of morning and evening readings — get a clean, GP-ready summary with your true home average, diurnal pattern and trend. One-off blood pressure readings in clinic miss the picture entirely. NICE recommends home blood pressure monitoring for anyone being investigated for hypertension — but the arithmetic is fiddly, and a few rules need to be applied before the readings mean anything. What MyBP does MyBP applies those rules for you. It drops the first reading of each session (per NICE guidance, the first reading is usually artificially high), separates morning and evening averages, flags any meaningful morning surge, and produces a clean printable summary you can take to your GP or upload before your SCVC appointment. What you need A validated upper-arm BP monitor and 4–7 days of twice-daily readings. The tool also generates a printable recording sheet if you prefer to write readings down first and enter them later.

A tape measure tells you more about cardiovascular risk than the bathroom scales. Find your waist-to-height ratio and see where you sit on the VAT trap scale. BMI cannot tell muscle from fat, and total body weight tells you nothing about visceral adipose tissue (VAT) — the metabolically active fat wrapped around your liver and abdominal organs. VAT is what drives insulin resistance, raises ApoB, distorts the lipid profile and ultimately feeds the four pillars of cardiovascular risk. Why waist-to-height ratio Waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) is the simplest, most reproducible bedside surrogate for VAT and outperforms BMI in predicting cardiometabolic risk across every age and ethnicity studied. The threshold is intuitive: keep your waist to less than half your height. What you'll get Enter your waist and height (inches or centimetres). The tool returns your WHtR with a clear green/amber/red zone, sex-specific commentary, and the option to email yourself a personalised PDF report. You can repeat the measurement monthly to track progress.

Two simple tests that together predict mobility, fall risk and cardiovascular mortality. The best home benchmark for tracking strength on a weight-loss journey. If you're losing weight — particularly on a GLP-1 — strength matters more than the number on the scales. Skeletal muscle contains fat and glycogen, both of which fall with weight loss; the scales drop, but what you need to protect is the contractile tissue underneath. Tracking strength tells you whether you're keeping it. Dynapenia, not just sarcopenia Sarcopenia describes loss of muscle mass; dynapenia describes loss of muscle strength — and dynapenia is the stronger predictor of falls, disability and mortality. The 30-second sit-to-stand is the gold-standard field test for dynapenia: it's used in NHS frailty pathways, validated against laboratory power testing, and needs nothing more than a dining chair and a timer. Why add grip strength Grip is a remarkable signal. It correlates with upper-body strength, with whole-body strength, and population studies (PURE, UK Biobank) show it independently predicts cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. One reading on a £25 hand dynamometer rounds out the picture. What you'll get Count your sit-to-stand reps with the on-screen timer. Add weight and height to unlock a leg-power estimate (watts per kilogram), then optionally add a grip reading. Both scores map against published age- and sex-banded reference ranges, with a PDF export to track over time.