Collins D, Lee J, Bobrovitz N, Koshiaris C, Ward A, Heneghan C. whoishRisk - an R package to calculate WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk scores for all epidemiological subregions of the world.
F1000Res 2016;
5:2522. [PMID:
28357040 PMCID:
PMC5345772 DOI:
10.12688/f1000research.9742.2]
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Abstract
The World Health Organisation and International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment charts have been implemented in many low- and middle-income countries as part of the WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease (PEN) Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource settings. Evaluation of the WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts and their use is a key priority and since they only existed in paper or PDF formats, we developed an R implementation of the charts for all epidemiological subregions of the world. The main strengths of this implementation are that it is built in a free, open-source, coding language with simple syntax, can be downloaded from github as a package (“whoishRisk”), and can be used with a standard computer.
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