Tailor your communication towards your patients with a cardiovascular risk calculator

According to the recent 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice, the importance of atherosclerosis cardiovascular (CV) disease prevention remains undisputed and should be delivered:

• at the general population level by promoting healthy lifestyle behavior
• at the individual level by tackling unhealthy lifestyles and by reducing levels of causal CV risk factors, such as low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c), non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDLc) and/or blood pressure.¹

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Healthcare professionals need to tailor their communication to individual patients.

Evaluating the cardiovascular risk on an individual basis can not only help support clinical decision-making in managing patients, for instance by helping patients to set individual goals.

HCPs can help support this behavior change by showing their patients the consequences of poor-lipid control, which is a direct consequence of non-medication adherence, or unhealthy lifestyle habits.²

This innovative cardiovascular risk calculator is an easy-to-use tool, based on the 2021 ESC guidelines, which can be used with any patient, including those in a very high-risk category.

It uses Non-HDLc as an input in the Systemic Coronary Risk Estimation 2 (SCORE2³) and SCORE2-Older Persons (SCORE2-OP⁴) risk algorithms.

It also provides healthcare professionals with recommendations for both LDL-c and non-HDLc targets, in line with ESC/EAS guidelines.¹