Current US guidelines recommend absolute risk estimation of cardiovascular disease (CVD) to guide decisions on preventive therapies, but communicating absolute risk alone can be challenging for patients and clinicians.1 In 2021, the European Society of Cardiology guidelines added a recommendation to calculate risk age along with absolute risk to improve communication.2 Risk age represents the age of a hypothetical person with the same predicted absolute risk but optimal risk factor levels.2 This may help individuals understand how their risk compares with chronological age (is my risk age older than my actual chronological age?) and may motivate adherence to lifestyle modifications or guideline-recommended preventive care based on absolute risk. While risk age was previously developed for the Framingham CVD risk model,3 this has not been updated for the Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) equations.4 Therefore, we developed PREVENT risk age equations and describe its distribution in the US population..
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2836740
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