What is it about?
we analyse how the risk profile of individuals at baseline (low, intermediate or high) measured by the World Health Organization/International Society for hypertension risk charts are related to mortality from cardiovascular diseases over a ten-year period in slums of Nairobi.
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Why is it important?
Analysing how the level of risk for CVD in individuals (absolute risk assessment) is associated with risk of death can help in targeted risk communication to high-risk individuals and enhance prevention and control of cardiovascular diseases through individual-level interventions like behaviour/lifestyle change modification in a poor community.
Perspectives
Appropriate and context-specific/context-appropriate risk functions like the WHO/ISH should be adopted in primary care settings to screen and identigy individuals at risk of developing CVD in the shorter term, and enrol them in interventions to prevent cardiovascular diseases and mortality.
Dr Frederick Murunga Wekesah
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
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This page is a summary of: Assessment of cardiovascular risk in a slum population in Kenya: use of World Health Organisation/International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) risk prediction charts - secondary analyses of a household survey, BMJ Open, September 2019, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029304.
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