Validated screening instruments, risk calculators, and reference material. Nothing here is behind a signup, and nothing is being sold to you.
These are screening tools, not diagnostic tests. A score in the concerning range does not mean you have the condition, and a reassuring score does not rule it out. What an abnormal result does mean is that it is worth raising with your own physician, who can interpret it alongside your history, examination and investigations.
Validated screening for obstructive sleep apnea risk. Eight questions, about two minutes.
Epworth Sleepiness ScaleExternalMeasures how likely you are to doze off during everyday activities. Commonly used alongside STOP-BANG.
CCS Framingham Risk ScoreExternalThe cardiovascular risk calculator used in Canadian practice, from the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. Estimates 10-year risk of a cardiovascular event.
Cardiovascular Disease Decision AidInteractiveEnter your own numbers and see how much different interventions actually change your estimated risk. Useful for understanding trade-offs before a conversation with your doctor, rather than as a treatment plan in itself.
The documents physicians actually work from, in both countries I have practised in. Written for clinicians, but freely available and worth reading if you want the primary source rather than a summary of a summary.
Full Canadian guidelines plus patient-facing resources in plain language.
ADA Standards of Care in DiabetesUnited StatesThe American Diabetes Association's annually updated standards. The closest US equivalent, and useful for comparing where the two diverge.
Imperfect, and shaped by more than evidence alone. Still the most rigorously reviewed nutrition guidance available, and free of the commercial interests behind most of what circulates online.
What actually counts as high fibre, how much you need, and where it realistically comes from in an ordinary diet.
Practical protein targets and sources, without the supplement industry framing.
How to identify ultra-processed foods from a label rather than guessing from the marketing on the front.
What is expected, what is manageable, and what actually warrants a call to your physician.
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