'Your Heart Forecast': a new approach for describing and communicating cardiovascular risk?

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'Your Heart Forecast': a new approach for describing and communicating cardiovascular risk?

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New Zealand was the first country to develop national clinical guidelines recommending that an explicit measure of absolute cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk should be the primary determinant of a decision to initiate blood pressure or lipid-lowering therapy.1 2 To facilitate the assessment of absolute CVD risk, we designed the New Zealand CVD risk charts3 which made it possible for clinicians to rapidly assess and explain a patient’s risk. A patient’s 5- or 10-year predicted CVD risk (a shor...

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Journal article

Date created

2010-05

Creator

Wells, Linda / Kerr, A / Eadie, S / Wiltshire, C / Jackson, Rodney

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http://hdl.handle.net/2292/16339

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Age Factors / Cardiovascular Diseases / Communication / Forecasting / Humans / Risk Assessment / Risk Factors

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