Start with what you need now. Each product is complete on its own, and there is no compulsory order.
What Heart Risk Navigator is
Heart Risk Navigator is an evidence-informed three-product system for hidden and incomplete heart risk. It helps you clarify risk information that may be missing, navigate connected risks, and take preventive action to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, or avoidable heart damage.
Where it begins
The system addresses cardiovascular, metabolic, lifestyle, and environmental risk—with a particular focus on Lipoprotein(a), often called stealth cholesterol. Elevated Lp(a) is inherited and affects about one in five people globally. It is not included in a standard cholesterol test. It can elevate, accelerate, and compound other risks.
How it works for you
Clarify, Navigate, and Prevent share one core flow: from what you know, to what remains unknown, to informed conversation with your health team, to agreed action and ongoing prevention. Prevent includes a continuing loop you use to update what is known, inform discussions and decisions with your health team, and support the next preventive action you take.
Cardiovascular disease is the world’s leading cause of death. It is largely preventable when your underlying risk factors are identified and acted upon early.
That is approximately one in three of all deaths globally — more than any other single cause. Heart disease does not announce itself. For many people, the first symptom is the event itself.
Both share the same upstream causes: plaque, inflammation, clot, and blocked blood flow. Both are driven by risks that can be present for years before a single symptom appears.
Stroke is the leading cause of long-term adult disability. The personal, family, and economic cost extends far beyond the event, involving years of dependency and changed lives.
Lp(a) is largely inherited. It can elevate, accelerate, and compound cardiovascular risk (including plaque, inflammation, clotting, and valve disease). It is not included in a standard cholesterol test. Most people with elevated levels have never been tested. In some populations the prevalence is closer to 1 in 3.
Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a genetic condition causing very high LDL-C from birth. It affects an estimated 1 in 250–500 people. Like Lp(a), it is not captured by the standard cholesterol test.
A standard lipid panel does not measure Lp(a), ApoB, or markers of inflammation. It does not assess family history systematically. And it is not universally available. In many parts of the world, even this limited test is not reliably accessible or routinely offered.
Other tests worth discussing with your health team include: Lp(a), ApoB, hs-CRP, fasting glucose, HbA1c, and (where appropriate) imaging such as coronary artery calcium scoring.
High blood pressure is a major driver of cardiovascular death and stroke. It often produces no symptoms. Other modifiable and environmental risks including insulin resistance, obesity, physical inactivity, smoking, poor diet, sleep deprivation, chronic stress, and air pollution account for a large share of cardiovascular burden standard testing does not capture.
Sources: WHO Global Health Estimates 2024 (cardiovascular deaths 2022); GBD 2021 Stroke Collaborators (stroke disability); WHO Hypertension Fact Sheet 2023; Tsimikas et al. / ESC Guidelines on dyslipidaemias 2019 (Lp(a) prevalence); familial hypercholesterolaemia prevalence per Nordestgaard et al. and EAS Consensus Panel. Figures are global estimates and may vary by population, year, and methodology.
The problem. The cost. What changes when you know?
The Hidden and Incomplete Risk Problem
Many people caught off guard by a heart attack or stroke didn't ignore their health. They simply trusted a standard check that left critical gaps. For example, Lp(a) is absent from standard cholesterol tests. ApoB is rarely discussed. Family history is often not reviewed systematically, and environmental factors are frequently overlooked. The result is an incomplete risk picture, leaving blind spots where hidden risks can quietly compound.
The Cost of an Incomplete Picture
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally, and stroke is a primary cause of both death and long-term disability. The toll of a cardiac event extends far beyond the hospital; it impacts independence, creates new dependencies, disrupts livelihoods, and changes family dynamics. Much of this cost falls on people and families who had no clear warning that their risk picture was incomplete.
What Changes When You Know?
Knowing your full risk picture does not guarantee a specific health outcome, but it fundamentally changes what is possible. It means asking better questions, understanding which tests actually matter, and having informed conversations with your health team. It means making decisions based on your actual reality, rather than a partial picture. It means bringing hidden risks into the light today, while there is still time to act, rather than hoping a heart event will not happen to you.
The shared flow creates coherence without turning Clarify, Navigate, and Prevent into a compulsory purchasing sequence. Each product is complete on its own, solves a distinct problem, and can reinforce another when a new need emerges.
Clarify if information is missing. Navigate if risks need context. Prevent if an agreed action needs follow-through. No prerequisites.
Ready to turn an agreed decision into sustained, tracked results? Choose Prevent. Need to connect multiple signals into a focused plan? Choose Navigate. Want a clear audit of what your tests miss? Choose Clarify.
Every product uses the same core flow: Known → Unknown → To discuss → Next action. Prevent adds Results → Known → repeat, so new information always becomes the starting point for your next review.
Heart Risk Navigator turns scattered information into a consistent structure for health team discussion and agreed action. It does not calculate or interpret individual risk, and the products do not introduce competing sequences.
The three products solve distinct problems within the same flow: incomplete information, unresolved risk relationships, and agreed action that needs to produce useful results and continue.
You have results, questions, family history, symptoms, or concerns, but important information may still be missing or disconnected. Clarify organises what is known, identifies what may be unknown, and prepares what needs to be discussed.
Clarify my riskYou already have signals to organise. Navigate helps you build structured risk context, distinguish relevant connections from assumptions, preserve what is unresolved, and prepare focused health team discussion and informed decisions so you can take an agreed next action.
Navigate my risksYou understand enough to act with your health team, but need sustained follow-through, a structured results record, prepared health team review, and continuity that returns new results to what is known and keeps the prevention loop moving.
Prevent risksEach product has a distinct role within the shared flow. Purchase the one that solves your current problem directly below, or explore the product pages for a deeper dive. There is no requirement to buy them all.
Create a structured heart risk audit that organises what is known, identifies what may be missing, prepares health team discussion, and records the next agreed action.
Organise several risks, results, diagnoses, or family concerns into structured risk context, examine relevant relationships without manufacturing certainty, and prepare focused health team discussion, informed decisions, and an agreed next action.
Turn an agreed next action into repeatable routines, recorded and reported results, prepared health team review, and a continuing prevention loop.
The preparation session is educational, not medical, and must be booked within 30 calendar days of purchase.
You don’t just need information. You need to feel prepared, supported, and in control. Here is what changes when you use Heart Risk Navigator.
Instead of searching online in a panic or arriving at appointments with scattered notes, you arrive with a structured record, clear questions, and a plan. The worry doesn’t disappear—but it becomes manageable because you know what to do next.
Heart risk information can feel like a maze of numbers, terms, and conflicting advice. Navigator gives you one clear flow: what’s known, what’s missing, what to discuss, and what to do next. You stop drowning in data and begin making progress.
When you bring organised information and focused questions to your health team, appointments change. Conversations become more productive. You leave with decisions and next steps, not just “we’ll see.” Your health team can help you more effectively when you bring structure.
We don’t diagnose. We don’t prescribe. We don’t promise miracles. HeartFirst sells structured educational tools that help you work more effectively with your health team. That honesty—and the clear boundaries behind it—is the foundation of everything we build.
Clear answers about scope, safety, purchasing, and how the system works.
No. Heart Risk Navigator provides educational information, tools, preparation, and structured guidance for informed conversations and agreed actions. It does not diagnose, treat, provide personalised medical advice, or replace your health team.
No. HeartFirst does not guarantee any health outcome. The products help you understand risk information, prepare informed conversations, organise agreed action, and strengthen follow-through with your health team. The 30-Day HeartFirst Guarantee covers educational value, not health outcomes.
Heart Risk Navigator is not an emergency service. New, severe, or rapidly worsening symptoms that may signal a heart attack, stroke, or another cardiovascular emergency require urgent medical assessment. If you are in any doubt, contact your local emergency service immediately.
Start with the problem you need to solve now.
Each product is complete on its own. There is no required first step.
No. Each product is complete on its own. You can use one product, combine two, or use all three over time. Start where your situation is now rather than following a compulsory sequence.
No. You can start with whatever you have: test results, family history, symptoms, concerns, an upcoming appointment, or simply a question. Clarify helps you organise what is known and identify what may be missing, even if you have not yet had any tests.
Clarify is €17, Navigate is €47, and Prevent is €147. Each is a one-time payment with no recurring charges. Full delivery, guarantee, and product-specific terms are explained on each product page.
Every product is covered by the 30-Day HeartFirst Guarantee. If you do not feel meaningfully more informed and better prepared, email us within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. No form or explanation is required. For Prevent, if the private preparation session has already been delivered, the stated €60 session delivery cost may be deducted. Full details are in the Refund Policy.
After your payment is confirmed, an access link is sent to the email address used at checkout, usually within a few minutes. For Prevent, the session-booking details are also included. If your email has not arrived within 30 minutes, check your spam folder or contact support.
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Stealth cholesterol is HeartFirst's plain-language description for Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a). Lp(a) is a largely inherited cardiovascular risk factor that is not included in a standard lipid panel and must be specifically measured. About 1 in 5 people are estimated to have elevated Lp(a), though prevalence varies by population.
Many resources provide articles, test lists, calculators, or generic tracking. Heart Risk Navigator provides three structured educational products built on one shared flow: Known, Unknown, To discuss, and Next action. The system does not calculate individual risk or replace your health team. Instead, it helps you organise information, prepare informed conversations, and sustain follow-through with the professionals responsible for your care.
If your results or records feel incomplete, start with Clarify. If you have several results that need context, start with Navigate. If you already have an agreed action to carry through, start with Prevent. You can also use the free Recognise resources at any time to help you find the right route.
Whether you need to uncover missing information, connect complex risks, or sustain a prevention plan, each product uses the same proven Navigator flow to prepare you for your next health team conversation.
Each product is complete on its own. One-time payment. Backed by the 30-Day HeartFirst Guarantee.