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The whoishRisk R package demonstrated 100% agreement with a previously published MatLab implementation for calculating WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk scores across all possible combinations of risk factors.
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The 'whoishRisk' R package provides a free, open-source tool to calculate WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk scores, facilitating their evaluation and use in low- and middle-income countries.
<ns3:p>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.</ns3:p>
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Collins et al. (2017) studied Cardiovascular disease risk assessment. whoishRisk R package vs. MatLab implementation of SEAR D risk charts was evaluated on Percent agreement with previously reported MatLab implementation. The whoishRisk R package demonstrated 100% agreement with a previously published MatLab implementation for calculating WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk scores across all possible combinations of risk factors.
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