Comparison Guide
Precision Health Reports vs. Boston Heart Diagnostics: How Do They Compare?
An apples-to-apples comparison of scope, clinical context, and where each option fits best.
Boston Heart Diagnostics and Precision Health Reports both focus on advanced cardiometabolic testing, but their approaches are different. Boston Heart offers specialty biomarker testing with proprietary reports and recommendations, while Precision Health Reports integrates guideline-based risk models to deliver a personalized, clinician-ready care plan. Below, we compare the two services across key features.
An Overview of Each Approach
Boston Heart Diagnostics
Boston Heart is a specialty laboratory known for its advanced lipid, inflammation, and metabolic biomarker panels. Their approach emphasizes uncovering hidden cardiovascular and metabolic risks, then providing lifestyle and nutritional recommendations to support risk reduction. Their reports are designed for both clinicians and patients, often highlighting diet, supplement, and medication considerations.
Precision Health Reports
Precision Health Reports is not a lab, but rather an interpretation and reporting service that focuses specifically on cardiometabolic disease risk—metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and ASCVD cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke.
Integrates national and international risk-reduction guidelines from ACC, NLA, AHA, AACE, and ESC.
Uses advanced biomarkers such as NMR Lipoprofile measured ApoB, Lp(a), GlycA, hemoglobin A1c, and LP-IR, along with biometrics and clinical history then adjusts for the individual’s age, gender, and ethnicity.
Provides a personalized, clinician-ready report with treatment targets and actionable next steps.
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Precision Health Reports vs. Boston Heart Diagnostics
| Feature | Precision Health Reports | Boston Heart Diagnostics |
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| Core Offering | Cardiometabolic Risk Assessment integrating validated risk models (ASCVD, diabetes, metabolic syndrome) with outcome-proven biomarkers. | Specialty laboratory testing panels focused on cardiovascular, lipid, and metabolic biomarkers. |
| Biomarkers Measured | Guideline-aligned (ACC, NLA, AHA, ESC); advanced biomarkers (ApoB, Lp(a), GlycA, LP-IR) | Comprehensive lipid panel, ApoE genotyping, sterol absorption markers, fatty acid balance, hs-CRP, Lp-PLA2, and others. |
| Interpretation Method | Uses clinical guidelines (ACC, NLA, EAS, AACE) plus ethnicity, age, and personal health data to contextualize results into actionable risk scores. | Provides proprietary reports with patient- and provider-facing recommendations, emphasizing diet, lifestyle, and medication guidance. |
| Personalization | Personalized risk-reduction thresholds and integrated risk scoring to estimate 8-year diabetes risk and ASCVD events. | Nutritional and lifestyle recommendations customized to biomarker results; includes provider support materials. |
| Audience | Direct primary care, concierge medicine, employer wellness, functional medicine, and individual consumers. | Primarily physicians and health systems, with patient-facing reports delivered through clinicians. |
| Action Plan | Provides a clinician-ready care plan that connects biomarker results to guideline-driven interventions. | Offers proprietary dietary and supplement recommendations; may integrate with providers’ treatment decisions. |
| Unique Differentiator | Bridges raw biomarker data with validated outcome-based models, creating a clear path from lab values to long-term risk reduction. | Longstanding specialty lab with emphasis on lipid metabolism and nutrition-based interventions. |
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Primary Differences between Function Health and Precision Health Reports
1. Lab vs. Interpretation
Boston Heart: Provides a specialty laboratory offering testing panels directly
Precision Health Reports: Narrower focus on interpretation with clinical precision within cardiometabolic disease focused on metabolic and cardiovascular disease risk.
2. Nutrition vs. Guidelines:
Boston Heart: Emphasizes nutrition and lifestyle recommendations as part of its reports
Precision Health Reports: Centers guidance on established clinical guidelines and validated risk models that allows proper shared-decisions about an intervention plan.
3. How Results Are Used
Boston Heart: Reports guide physicians and patients toward lifestyle adjustments and may supplement broader cardiovascular treatment plans through emphasis on nutritional genomics and lipid metabolism. This makes them popular among providers seeking targeted diet and supplement guidance.
Precision Health Reports: Reports give a clinician-ready plan that ties directly into evidence-based guidelines. This bridges raw biomarker values to long-term risk reduction strategies, helping providers track, manage, and demonstrate progress in cardiometabolic risk reduction over time.
4. End User Fit
Boston Heart: Well-suited for providers who want advanced biomarker panels with strong nutrition-oriented support.
Precision Health Reports: Appeals to individuals, clinical practices, and employers that need a structured, guideline-driven framework for identifying high-risk individuals and quantifying their risk reduction over time.
Which Option Fits Your Needs?
Both Boston Heart Diagnostics and Precision Health Reports aim to go beyond standard cholesterol testing. Boston Heart is recognized for its specialty panels and nutrition-centered recommendations, while Precision Health Reports emphasizes integration of biomarkers into validated risk prediction models and clinical guidelines.
If your goal is a biomarker-rich snapshot with nutrition-focused recommendations, Boston Heart may be the right choice. If you need a clinician-ready, guideline-based assessment with personalized thresholds and risk scoring, Precision Health Reports provides that framework.
Looking for more options? See how Precision Health Reports compares to other testing options on our main comparison page.
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Take the Next Step
If you are ready to tackle your cardiometabolic disease risk, you can get started right away for just $249/Assessment or use one of our annual subscription models, as low as $35/month. Our Cardiometabolic Risk Assessment gives you a complete picture of your risk for metabolic and cardiovascular disease events with outcome-proven biomarkers and guideline-driven recommendations to give you a clear path forward.
Frequently Asked Questions
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It depends on what you’re looking for. Boston Heart Diagnostics provides advanced lab testing panels with nutrition and lifestyle recommendations built into the report. Precision Health Reports doesn’t run the lab itself. Instead, it translates results into validated risk models (for heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome) and aligns them with clinical guidelines. Patients often choose Boston Heart for detailed nutrition insights, while providers and wellness programs as well as people concerned about cardiometabolic disease choose Precision Health Reports for risk scoring and personalized risk-reduction goals.
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They can complement each other. Boston Heart focuses on identifying biomarker patterns and nutritional strategies, while Precision Health Reports focuses on quantifying long-term disease risk and creating a structured, guideline-based care plan. Some clinics use Boston Heart testing together with Precision Health Reports to provide a tighter, personalized view in the context of overall cardiometabolic risk management.
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With Boston Heart, you receive a lab report that highlights biomarker results and nutrition-based suggestions tailored to those values. With Precision Health Reports, you receive a color-schemed personalized assessment that shows your projected risk of type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular events, along with guideline-driven steps you and your doctor can act on. One is more lab-focused, the other more care-plan focused.
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Clinicians often order Boston Heart when they want to better understand metabolic patterns and incorporate nutrition strategies. Precision Health Reports is used when providers want a validated, outcome-based risk assessment that connects biomarkers and personal clinical history to treatment guidelines, allowing them to track patient progress over time.
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Boston Heart is typically used within physician practices and health systems. Precision Health Reports is also structured for employers, direct primary care, and concierge practices, offering scalable risk assessments.