title: whoishRisk - an R package to calculate WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk scores for all epidemiological subregions of the world.
abstract: The World Health Organisation and International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment charts have been implemented in many low- and middle-income countries as part of the WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease (PEN) Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource settings. Evaluation of the WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts and their use is a key priority and since they only existed in paper or PDF formats, we developed an R implementation of the charts for all epidemiological subregions of the world. The main strengths of this implementation are that it is built in a free, open-source, coding language with simple syntax, can be downloaded from github as a package ("whoishRisk"), and can be used with a standard computer.
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Dylan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Niklas
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-7883-4484
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bobrovitz
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Constantinos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koshiaris
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.affiliation: Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Heneghan
keywords: Cardiovascular Risk Charts; R; Risk Score; WHO/ISH