VA Women CVD Risk Score

Introduction

The VA Women CVD Risk Score estimates the predicted 10-year cardiovascular (CVD) risk score (in probability) for women military service members and veterans by inputting patient profiles. The proposed women CVD risk score improves the accuracy of the existing American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association CVD risk assessment tool in predicting long-term CVD risk for VA women, particularly in young and racial/ethnic minority women.

Reference

Papers:

• Jeon-Slaughter, H., Chen, X., Tsai, S., Ramanan, B., & Ebrahimi, R. (2021). Developing an internally validated veterans affairs women cardiovascular disease risk score using Veterans Affairs National Electronic Health Records. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(5), e019217.
• Chen, X., Ramanan, B., Tsai, S., & Jeon-Slaughter, H. (2020). Differential impact of aging on cardiovascular risk in women military service members. Journal of the American Heart Association , 9(12), e015087.

R package:

• vaRiskScore v1.1.0