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  • Patients with the same risk factor profile have higher risk of heart disease
    or stroke in low- and middle-income countries than high-income countries.
  • Proportion of adults at high-risk of heart disease or stroke ranges
    from 1% for South Korean women to 42% for Czech men in high-income countries.
  • Proportion of adults at high-risk of heart disease or stroke ranges
    from 2% in Uganda to 13% for Iranian men in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Screening and diagnosis of diabetes substantially increases
    the validity of predicted risk of heart disease or stroke.
Globorisk is the first cardiovascular disease risk score that predicts risk of heart attack or stroke in healthy individuals (those who have not yet had a heart attack or stroke) for all countries in the world. It uses information on a person’s country of residence, age, sex, smoking, diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol to predict the chance that they would have a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years. If the person does not have a recent diabetes or cholesterol test, they can use the office-based version of Globorisk which is based on body weight and height instead.

Lab Risk Calculator

Use this calculator if you know your serum cholesterol value and if you know whether you have diabetes.

Office Risk Calculator

Use this calculator if you do not know your serum cholesterol value or do not know if you have diabetes.

Download Risk Charts

Use this link to download lab-based or office-based risk charts for your country of interest.

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