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QRISK score; QRISK2 score; QRISK3 score
Indications:
- calculator for estimating 10-year risk for MI & stroke
Epidemiology:
- used across the British National Health Service
Procedure:
- age, ethnicity, deprivation
- systolic blood pressure & systolic blood pressure variability
- body-mass index
- total cholesterol/HDL cholesterol in serum/plasma
- smoking
- coronary heart disease in a 1st-degree relative younger t< 60
- presence of type 1 diabetes or type 2 diabetes
- treated hypertension
- rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus
- atrial fibrillation
- stage 3, 4 or 5 chronic kidney disease
- migraine
- corticosteroid use, atypical antipsychotic use
- severe mental illness
- erectile dysfunction
Notes:
- QRISK2, QRISK3 [2]
General
cardiovascular risk calculator; cardiovascular risk score
References
- Hippisley-Cox J, Coupland C, Vinogradova Y et al
Derivation and validation of QRISK, a new cardiovascular
disease risk score for the United Kingdom: prospective open
cohort study.
BMJ. 2007 Jul 21;335(7611):136. Epub 2007 Jul 5.
PMID: 17615182 Free PMC Article
http://www.bmj.com/content/335/7611/136
- Hippisley-Cox J, Coupland C, Brindle P.
Development and validation of QRISK3 risk prediction algorithms
to estimate future risk of cardiovascular disease: Prospective
cohort study.
BMJ 2017 May 23; 357:j2099
PMID: 28536104 Free PMC Article
http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2099