Volume 3, Number 2, March-April 2006

Calculating Cardiovascular Risk: 'How To' guide for the new British Guidelines
Jan Procter-King

Calculating cardiovascular risk is at the heart of primary prevention – it gives us a practical way of assessing who we should be targeting with lifestyle changes and drug treatment to reduce the chance of them suffering a heart attack or stroke in the future. The new Joint British Guidelines make it very clear who we should be screening for CVD and how to calculate their risk.

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