What are the different cardiovascular risk calculators that providers should consider?
Providers should consider the following cardiovascular risk calculators when calculating 10-year risk and determining the need for lipid-lowering medication: FRS, PCE, and VARS-CVD. The FRS is a tool used to estimate the 10-year risk of having a CV event (not including stroke), PCE is a central tool recommended by the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) based on a 10-year CVD risk estimation from a pooled cohort equation, and VARS-CVD is a five-year risk score calculator only for the VA population using the information available in the VA Electronic Health Record (EHR). For more information, see Appendix B.