Predicting
Risk of Death from Cardiovascular Disease:
a physician's calculator
Source:
"A score for predicting risk of death from
cardiovascular disease in adults with raised blood pressure, based
on individual patient data from randomised controlled trials".
Pocock SJ et al. BMJ Vol 323 14 July 2001
pages 75-81.
The risk score is an objective aid
to assessing an individual's risk of cardiovascular disease,
including stroke and coronary heart disease. It is useful for
physicians when determining an individual's need for
antihypertensive treatment and other management strategies for
cardiovascular risk.
Objective: To
create a risk score for death from cardiovascular disease that
can be easily used.
Design: Data from
eight randomised controlled trials of antihypertensive treatment
Setting: Europe and
North America
Participants:
47,088
men and women from trials that had differing age ranges and
differing eligibility criteria for blood pressure
Main Outcome Measure:
1639 deaths from cardiovascular causes during a mean 5.2 years
of follow up
Results: see
original article (BMJ Vol 323 14 July 2001
pages 75-81.)
