The WHO Cardiovascular Disease Risk (Non-Laboratory-Based) in a Selected Brazilian Population: Percentiles of Distribution And Agreement With Laboratory-Based Scores

Resumo

In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) published revised charts for estimating the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).1 Two models are proposed: one based on laboratory tests including plasma total cholesterol and presence or absence of diabetes mellitus as predictors, and another based on the body mass index (BMI). In lowresource and office settings, when cholesterol levels and information on diabetes are not available, the BMI-based In a previous study, we determined laboratory-based percentiles of the WHO CVD risk distribution, according to sex and age, in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of percentiles were associated with the calculated risk of atherosclerotic CVD up to 75 years, regardless of the estimated 10-year risk. Expressing the risk percentile has been proposed to increase risk awareness and improve specific percentiles of the distribution of the WHO non