Do you Like Fear as a Motivator ?

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This article takes the Farmingham Longitudinal Health data and creates a pretty easy to use set of graphs that tell the risk of heart attack or stroke in 10 or 30 years based on the 4 major risk factors for both 25 and 45 year olds.

There are calculators on the web (Mayo clinic comes to mind) that offer the same. Obesity is a pretty good surrogate of dyslipidemia. Or try this calculator, that translates risk into your heart age: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/cardiovasculardisease/heartage.html