What we measure
The markers that matter for your heart, kidneys, and metabolism.
Many platforms compete on how many markers they can test. We focus on the ones research ties most closely to preventable risk, and the ones you can actually do something about. We score them for your biology, then turn the results into a plan with a coach to act on it.
The full picture
One connected system
Your heart, kidneys, and metabolism move together. We read them as one picture, not a stack of separate tests.
Cardiovascular
Heart and arteries
Apolipoprotein B (ApoB)
Counts the cholesterol-carrying particles that can build up in artery walls, a signal research ties more closely to heart risk than standard LDL alone.
Lipoprotein(a)
An inherited cholesterol particle linked to higher cardiovascular risk; because it is largely genetic, reading it once helps personalize your plan.
LDL, HDL & Total Cholesterol
The standard lipid panel, read together to see how cholesterol is balanced and moving through your arteries.
Triglycerides
A blood fat that tracks with diet and metabolic health and rounds out the cholesterol picture.
High-Sensitivity CRP
A sensitive read on low-grade inflammation, which research links to cardiovascular risk.
Blood Pressure
The force in your arteries over time, one of the most established contributors to heart and kidney risk.
Including ApoB and Lp(a), advanced markers a routine lipid panel often leaves out.
Kidney
Filtration and early damage
eGFR
An estimate of how well your kidneys filter your blood, the headline number for kidney function.
Urine Albumin-to-Creatinine (UACR)
Checks for small amounts of protein leaking into urine, an early signal of kidney stress.
Serum Creatinine
A waste product your kidneys clear from the blood; it anchors the eGFR estimate.
Urine Albumin
Protein measured directly in urine, paired with creatinine to catch early kidney change.
Urine Creatinine
Read alongside urine albumin so the protein result holds up whether the sample is dilute or concentrated.
A full kidney panel, because early kidney decline rarely shows symptoms until late.
Metabolic
Blood sugar and body composition
HbA1c
Reflects your average blood sugar over the past few months, a steadier read than a single measurement.
Fasting Glucose
A snapshot of blood sugar after not eating, useful for spotting early metabolic shifts.
Body Mass Index
A quick height-to-weight ratio we read in context with ethnicity-aware targets, never in isolation.
Waist Circumference
A simple measure of central fat that research links to metabolic and heart risk.
Early signals of insulin resistance, read before they reach the diabetes range.
A single number rarely tells the truth on its own. Read together, and scored for your biology, these markers reveal where risk is building before symptoms appear.
Why Porter Health
Focused on what matters
We test the markers that change what you do, grounded in the American Heart Association’s CKM framework, PREVENT risk scoring, and Life’s Essential 8. The signal that predicts risk, without the noise.
Culturally intelligent
Your results are scored against targets adjusted for ethnicity where the research supports it, e.g. South Asian. A number that reads "normal" on a standard chart is not normal for everyone.
Human coach in the loop
Every result is reviewed one-on-one with a health coach who meets you where you are and turns your numbers into a prevention plan you will actually keep.
Beyond the bloodwork
Lifestyle factors
The behaviors that move every marker above
- Stress (PSS-4)
- Diet quality (MEPA)
- Sleep duration
- Physical activity
- Tobacco use
Risk-enhancing factors
Context that changes how we read your results
- Family history of premature CVD
- South Asian ancestry
- Metabolic syndrome
- Atrial fibrillation
- Peripheral artery disease
- Chronic kidney disease
- Sleep apnea
- Periodontal disease
Your assessment
Your markers, translated into the scores clinicians use.
We don’t hand you a wall of lab values and wish you luck. Porter Health reads them together and turns them into standards-based scores built on the frameworks cardiologists rely on. This is a snapshot, a point-in-time read that updates as your numbers and habits change, not a one-time report.
Thrive Index
Sample view- Heart Health Score
- Heart-Kidney-Metabolic Stage
- Heart Risk Score
- Risk-Enhancing Factors
Heart Health Score
Life’s Essential 8
The eight factors the AHA links most closely to cardiovascular health, scored together.
Heart-Kidney-Metabolic Stage
AHA CKM staging
Where you sit on the AHA’s 2023 framework for how risk builds across the connected system.
Heart Risk Score
AHA PREVENT
Your estimated cardiovascular risk over time, calculated with the AHA’s PREVENT equations.
Risk-Enhancing Factors
Context that raises risk
Conditions and history the research links to higher risk, e.g. family history, South Asian ancestry, or metabolic syndrome, factored into how we read your results.
Your numbers become a plan. Our health coach helps you act on it.
Your assessment becomes a prevention plan drawing from 150+ evidence-based actions. Then a coach helps you put the plan into action and adjusts as your numbers change. We meet you where you are, your biology, your history, your life. That is how prevention actually happens.
- One-on-one human coaching
- Personalized from 150+ evidence-based actions
- Reviewed and adjusted over time
See where your risk is building, and what to do about it.
A full heart-kidney-metabolic assessment, scored for you, with a prevention plan and a human health coach to act on it.
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Service not yet available in HI, NJ, NY, or RI. Porter Health is designed to support prevention and is not a substitute for diagnosis or treatment.