Collins Dylan, Lee Joseph, Bobrovitz Niklas, Koshiaris Constantinos, Ward Alison, Heneghan Carl
Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
F1000Res. 2016 Oct 14;5:2522. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.9742.2. eCollection 2016.
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.
世界卫生组织和国际高血压学会（WHO/ISH）的心血管疾病（CVD）风险评估图表已在许多低收入和中等收入国家实施，作为世界卫生组织在低资源环境下初级卫生保健基本非传染性疾病（PEN）干预措施包的一部分。对WHO/ISH心血管风险图表及其使用情况进行评估是一项关键优先事项，由于这些图表仅以纸质或PDF格式存在，我们针对世界所有流行病学次区域开发了该图表的R语言实现版本。此实现版本的主要优点是，它基于一种免费、开源且语法简单的编码语言构建，可以从github上作为一个包（“whoishRisk”）下载，并且可以在标准计算机上使用。
