SCORE Risk Charts

The European cardiovascular disease risk assessment model

Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE): high and low cardiovascular risk charts based on gender, age, total cholesterol, systolic blood pressure and smoking status, with relative risk chart, qualifiers and instructions.

Download the SCORE Charts

EU Charts - High / Low Risk

Advantages of SCORE

Based on a large data set tested thoroughly with European data
Operates with hard, reproducible endpoints (CVD death)
Risk of CHD and stroke death can be derived separately
Enables the development of an electronic interactive version of the risk chart
The SCORE risk function can be calibrated to each country’s national mortality statistics

The SCORE database combines results from:

12 European cohort studies
250,000 patient-data sets
3 million person-years of observation
7,000 fatal CV events

SCORE risk charts interactive version

Access HeartScore, the interactive tool based on the SCORE risk charts.

Which charts should I use for my country?

Use the low-risk charts in Andorra, Austria, Belgium,* Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,* Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, the Netherlands,* Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain,* Sweden,* Switzerland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Use the high-risk charts in other European countries. Some are at very high risk: the charts may underestimate risk in those. They include Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Egypt, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, North Macedonia, Moldova (Republic of), Russian Federation, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

*Updated, recalibrated charts are now available for Belgium, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Poland.

For more information, please contact your National Cardiac Society.

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