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Practice Guideline
. 2016 Aug 1;37(29):2315-2381.
doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw106. Epub 2016 May 23.

2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: The Sixth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of 10 societies and by invited experts)Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR)

Massimo F Piepoli, Arno W Hoes, Stefan Agewall  1 , Christian Albus  2 , Carlos Brotons  3 , Alberico L Catapano  4 , Marie-Therese Cooney  1 , Ugo Corrà  1 , Bernard Cosyns  1 , Christi Deaton  1 , Ian Graham  1 , Michael Stephen Hall  5 , F D Richard Hobbs  3 , Maja-Lisa Løchen  1 , Herbert Löllgen  6 , Pedro Marques-Vidal  1 , Joep Perk  1 , Eva Prescott  1 , Josep Redon  7 , Dimitrios J Richter  1 , Naveed Sattar  8 , Yvo Smulders  1 , Monica Tiberi  1 , H Bart van der Worp  9 , Ineke van Dis  10 , W M Monique Verschuren  1 , Simone Binno; ESC Scientific Document Group
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Practice Guideline

2016 European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: The Sixth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (constituted by representatives of 10 societies and by invited experts)Developed with the special contribution of the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR)

Massimo F Piepoli et al. Eur Heart J. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Blood pressure; Clinical settings; Diabetes; Guidelines; Healthy lifestyle; Lipid; Nutrition; Physical activity; Population; Prevention; Primary care; Psychosocial factors; Rehabilitation; Risk assessment; Risk management; Smoking; Stakeholder.

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Figure 1
SCORE chart: 10-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in populations of countries at high cardiovascular risk based on the following risk factors: age, sex, smoking, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol. CVD = cardiovascular disease; SCORE = Systematic Coronary Risk Estimation.
Figure 2
Figure 2
SCORE chart: 10-year risk of fatal cardiovascular disease in populations of countries at low cardiovascular risk based on the following risk factors: age, sex, smoking, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol. CVD = cardiovascular disease; SCORE = Systematic Coronary Risk Estimation.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Relative risk chart, derived from SCORE Conversion of cholesterol mmol/L → mg/dL: 8 = 310; 7 = 270; 6 = 230; 5 = 190; 4 = 155.
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Figure 4
SCORE chart (for use in high-risk European countries) illustrating how the approximate risk age can be read off the chart. SCORE = Systematic Coronary Risk Estimation.
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