ACC/AHA 2013 ASCVD risk score

Source: R/ascvd_10y_accaha.R

Computes 10-year risk for hard ASCVD event (defined as first occurrence of non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI), congestive heart disease (CHD) death, or fatal or nonfatal stroke).

ascvd_10y_accaha(
  race = "white",
  gender = c("male", "female"),
  age,
  totchol,
  hdl,
  sbp,
  bp_med,
  smoker,
  diabetes,
  ...
)

Arguments

race

patient race (white, aa, other)

gender

patient gender (male, female)

age

patient age (years)

totchol

Total cholesterol (mg/dL)

hdl

HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)

sbp

Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)

bp_med

Patient is on a blood pressure medication (1=Yes, 0=No)

smoker

Current smoker (1=Yes, 0=No)

diabetes

Diabetes (1=Yes, 0=No)

...

Additional predictors can be passed and will be ignored

Value

Estimated 10-Y Risk for hard ASCVD (percent)

References

Goff, David C., et al. "2013 ACC/AHA guideline on the assessment of cardiovascular risk: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 63.25 Part B (2014): 2935-2959.

Examples

library(CVrisk)
ascvd_10y_accaha(
  race = "aa", gender = "male", age = 55,
  totchol = 213, hdl = 50, sbp = 140,
  bp_med = 0, smoker = 0, diabetes = 0
)
#> [1] 7.95