WHO is a high-risk CVD patient?

 What is a high-risk patient?

Patients With established atherosclerotic CVD. whether Of the coro-

nary. peripheral, cerebral vessels. or of the aorta. even if asyntptomatic.

Asymptomatic individuals Who are at increased risk Of CVD because Of

• multiple risk factors resulting in raised total CVD risk:

JES4:' total CVD risk (SCORE) 2 to-year risk ofCVD death

JBS2•.2 total CVD risk 20% over 10 years of developing atheroscle-

rotiC CVD

• diabetes type 2 and type 1

• markedly increased single risk factors, especially if associated with

end-organ damage:

JES4: blood pressure 180/110 mmHg total cholesterol 2 8

mmol/l (—320 mg/dl), LDL cholesterol 2 6 mmol/l (—240 mg/dl)

JBS2: blood pressure 2 160/100 mm Hg; total cholesterol/HDL

cholesterol ratio 2 6.

Close relatives of subjects with premature atherosclerotic CVD or of

those at particularly high risk