Heart Health Tracking App: Monitoring Key Biomarkers
How Healthbase helps you track cholesterol, blood pressure trends, and other cardiovascular markers to stay on top of your heart health.
Heart disease develops over years, often silently. The biomarkers that indicate cardiovascular risk — cholesterol, blood pressure, inflammation, blood sugar — change gradually. By the time symptoms appear, significant damage may have occurred.
Tracking heart health biomarkers over time gives you early warning and helps you measure whether lifestyle changes or treatments are working.
Why Heart Health Tracking Matters
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Europe. But much of it is preventable or manageable with early intervention.
The challenge is that risk develops slowly and invisibly. Your cholesterol might be creeping up over years. Your blood pressure might be gradually increasing. Your metabolic health might be deteriorating. These changes are hard to notice from one annual checkup to the next, but become obvious when you look at a decade of data.
Tracking heart health biomarkers over time lets you:
Catch concerning trends before they become critical Measure the impact of diet, exercise, and medication changes Have data-driven conversations with your doctor about cardiovascular risk Take action early when intervention is most effective
Key Heart Health Biomarkers
Lipid Panel
| Marker | What It Tells You |
|---|---|
| Total Cholesterol | Overall cholesterol level — less meaningful than the breakdown |
| LDL ("bad" cholesterol) | Higher levels increase cardiovascular risk |
| HDL ("good" cholesterol) | Higher levels are protective |
| Triglycerides | Elevated levels increase risk, often related to diet and metabolism |
| LDL:HDL Ratio | Some consider this more predictive than individual values |
Tracking lipids over time shows whether your cardiovascular risk is stable, improving, or worsening — and whether interventions are working.
Blood Pressure
While not a lab test, blood pressure is crucial for heart health. If you monitor at home, Healthbase can track these readings alongside your lab data.
Trends in blood pressure over months and years are more meaningful than individual readings, which can vary with stress, caffeine, time of day, and measurement conditions.
Metabolic Markers
| Marker | Why It Matters for Heart Health |
|---|---|
| Fasting Glucose | Elevated blood sugar damages blood vessels |
| HbA1c | Long-term blood sugar control indicator |
| Insulin | Elevated insulin often precedes blood sugar problems |
Metabolic health and cardiovascular health are closely linked. Prediabetes and diabetes significantly increase heart disease risk.
Inflammation
| Marker | What It Tells You |
|---|---|
| CRP (C-reactive protein) | Chronic low-grade inflammation increases cardiovascular risk |
| Homocysteine | Elevated levels associated with increased cardiovascular risk |
Some consider inflammatory markers important additions to traditional lipid testing.
Other Relevant Markers
| Marker | Relevance |
|---|---|
| Vitamin D | Deficiency associated with cardiovascular risk |
| Omega-3 index | Measures heart-healthy fatty acid status |
| Lipoprotein(a) | Genetic risk factor, doesn't change with lifestyle |
| apoB | Some consider more predictive than LDL alone |
What Healthbase Does
Consolidate All Heart Health Data
Upload lab results from any provider. Healthbase extracts all cardiovascular-relevant markers and organizes them in one place.
No more hunting through old emails for that lipid panel from two years ago. Everything is searchable and accessible.
Track Trends Over Time
See how your cholesterol has changed over the past five years. Watch whether your blood pressure is trending up, down, or stable. Identify whether that diet change actually improved your numbers.
Single snapshots tell you where you are. Trends tell you where you're heading.
Connect the Dots
Cardiovascular health involves multiple interconnected markers. Healthbase helps you see how they relate:
Did your triglycerides improve when your HbA1c came down? Is your HDL climbing as your exercise increased? How did your lipids respond to medication?
Prepare for Cardiology Appointments
Before seeing a cardiologist or discussing heart health with your primary care doctor, generate a summary of your cardiovascular data with trends. Walk in prepared with your complete history.
How It Works
- Upload your labs — Lipid panels, metabolic panels, any cardiovascular-relevant testing
- AI extracts the data — All heart health markers identified and tracked
- See your trends — Visualize how your cardiovascular risk factors are changing
- Get context — Understand what the numbers mean and how they relate
- Share with providers — Generate summaries for productive appointments
Early Detection, Early Action
The value of heart health tracking is catching problems early. A cholesterol level that's been rising for five years indicates a trajectory that might not be apparent from any single test.
With Healthbase, you're not waiting for your doctor to notice a problem at your next annual checkup. You're actively monitoring your cardiovascular health and catching concerning trends when intervention is most effective.
Heart disease is often preventable. Tracking is how you prevent it.
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