title: Predicting Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke: The FINRISK Calculator.
abstract: The FINRISK risk calculator predicts 10-year risk for coronary heart disease, stroke incidence, and their combination. The model is based on 10-year cohort follow-up from 3 different cohorts in 1982, 1987, and 1992 from a random population sample in 3 areas in Finland. Coronary heart disease, stroke, and their combination are predicted by smoking, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, diabetes, and family history. The Internet-based calculator is commonly used in Finland in health services to assess the need for hypertension and hypercholesterolemia treatment and is used also in patients' counseling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: erkki.vartiainen@thl.fi.
authors.forename: Erkki
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vartiainen
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland; Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland.
authors.forename: Tiina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laatikainen
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Markku
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peltonen
authors.affiliation: Department of Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Pekka
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Puska
mesh_terms: D001794:Blood Pressure; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005387:Finland / Q000453:epidemiology; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors; D020521:Stroke / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015996:Survival Rate / Q000639:trends