• This risk calculator uses information from the Framingham Heart Study to predict your risk of developing a heart attack or death from coronary disease in the next 10 years.
• The original study covers population of interest with individuals 30 to 74 years old and without cardiovascular diseases at the baseline examination. ( NOTE: The app built with Shiny extrapolated the age to 21 to 80 years old.)
• The side panel of the app asks for user inputs such as gender, age, lipids info, diabetic or not, smoking status
• The main panel shows a plot showing “Risk Score vs Total Cholesteral”, the predicted 10-year heart attack risk score and its corresponding heart age.

Variables / Predictors

• log(Age)
• log(Total Cholesteral)
• log(HDL Cholesteral)
• log(Systolic Blood Pressure)
• Smoker status
• Diabetes status

Formula

• For women: \(1-0.95012^{e^{(ΣßX – 26.1931)}}\)
• For men: \(1-0.88936^{e^{(ΣßX – 23.9802)}}\)
• \(ß\): regression coefficient from the Study
• \(X\): variables/predictors above

1. D’agostino RB, Vasan RS, Pencina MJ, Wolf PA, Cobain M, Massaro JM, Kannel WB. General cardiovascular risk profile for use in primary care. Circulation. 2008 Feb 12;117:743-53. PMID:18212285.
2. Framingham Heart Study