Patient selection: adult European >= 40 years of age
Predicted outcome: probability of fatal cardiovascular event within 10 years
Parameters:
(1) age
(2) gender
(3) smoker vs nonsmoker
(4) high risk vs low risk population
(5) systolic blood pressure in mm Hg
(6) serum total cholesterol in mmol/L
(7) ratio of total serum cholesterol to HDL cholesterol
where:
• Age, systolic blood pressure and cholesterol values are rounded to values shown in the tables.
A patient's risk is based on values shown in the data tables shown in Figure 1 (total cholesterol and high risk region, page 993), Figure 2 (total cholesterol and low risk region, page 994), Figure 3 (cholesterol ratio and high risk region, page 995) and Figure 4 (cholesterol ratio and low risk region, page 996).
