SCORE2-LAC: Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Latin America and the Caribbean

How should cardiovascular risk be assessed?

Several tools are available for cardiovascular risk assessment. These were developed primarily for European populations, including Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE), SCORE2, and SCORE2 – Older Persons (SCORE2-OP); US populations, including the Framingham risk score and the PREVENT^TM equations; and, more recently, Asia-Pacific populations, including SCORE2 Asia-Pacific.

However, these scores are frequently used in populations for which they were neither developed nor recalibrated or validated. This practice may compromise the accuracy of cardiovascular risk estimates.

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