Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Nebraska, but now BryanLGH is offering a new program to help you monitor your heart health.

In about seven minutes, you could be on your way to a healthier lifestyle, and you can do it in the comfort of your own home.

Heart Aware is a new program that we have out there that is Internet-based assessment tool that allows people to go online answer a few questions. And by doing that, they assign a risk to them as to whether they are at risk for cardio vascular disease.

Here's how the program works: After logging on, the service asks you 10 to 12 questions about your health and family history. At the end, you will receive a full personalized report.

The tool will help tune you into what areas you need to focus on. So, if your focus is blood pressure and cholesterol, you work on those and through your doctor or even through us, we can help monitor to see if you are making improvements in those areas," said Eric Hoesing, Director of Cardiac and Vascular Service.

"We are seeing more and more 40 and 50-year-olds come into the hospital with heart disease. So people at least age 40 or above should be tuning into their overall risk factors for cardiac and vascular disease," he said.

"I think it is just all part of an overall effort to catch disease processes early. Because early intervention, we have a chance of slowing the progression of that disease or altering its pathway."

BryanLGH is also releasing risk assessment tools for cancer and sleep disorders.