Framingham Heart Study Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
The Framingham Heart Study is a project of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at Boston University
Links to the Framingham Heart Study "Risk Calculators" specific to the Lifestyle Works article on Women and Heart Disease are listed next.
(See the note below the links for what to anticipate when using the links)
Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD)
Link notes:
After clicking on the link, you will be presented with a page like this:
Click on the Risk Score Calculator - Interactive Link for the calculator like below. In the case of "coronary heart disease", you will be taken to more than one page before arriving at the calculator (application).
Click on the ICON below to access the full Framingham Heart Study resources.
The panel believed that a Framingham global risk score greater than 20% could be used to identify a woman at high risk but that a lower score is not sufficient to ensure that an individual woman is at low risk. Even the presence of a single risk factor at 50 years of age is associated with a substantially increased lifetime absolute risk for CVD and shorter duration of survival. Women who are at risk of CVD because they have 1 or more risk factors for heart disease, evidence of subclinical disease with or without risk factors, poor exercise capacity, or unhealthy lifestyles may have a broad range of risk for CVD. (1)
(1) Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women: 2007 Update, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Vol. 49, No. 11, 2007