Understanding cardiovascular risk scores in the international context

Graphical AbstractThe anatomy of a cardiovascular risk score (assuming 10 risk factors included). Note that risk factors that have a negative association with cardiovascular disease, such as HDL-cholesterol, will have a negative weight and, for binary variables, such as diabetes (yes/no), their mean will be their proportion of positives, i.e. the number with diabetes divided by the number of people in the study.Open in new tabDownload slide