Risk for heart attack in dyslipidemic patients
Steps to find out risk for developing heart attack.
Step 1
Check the table below to see how many of the listed risks you have: these are risk factors that affect your LDL goal.
Major Risk Factors that affect your goal.
Cigarette Smoking
High Blood Pressure (140 / 90 mm Hg or higher on blood pressure medicine)
Low HDL Cholesterol (less than 40 mg/dl)
Family history of early heart disease. (heart disease in father or brother before age of 55; heart disease in mother or sister before age 65)
Age (men 45 years or older; women 55 years or older)
If your HDL cholesterol is 60mg/dl or higher, subtract 1 from your total count.
Even though Obesity and physical activity are not counted in this list, they are conditions that need to be corrected.
Step 2
How many major risk factors do you have? If you have 2 or more risk factors in the table given above, use the risk scoring tables to find out your risk scores. Risk score refers to the chance of having a heart attack in the next 10 years, given as a percentage. (Framingham Point Scores)
My 10 years risk score is-------------
Step 3
Use your medical history, number of risk factors, and risk score to find your risk of developing heart disease or having a heart attack in the table given below.
If You Have You Are in Category
Heart disease, Diabetes, or Risk score more than 20 %
Highest risk
2 or more risk factors and risk score 10-20 %
Next Highest risk
2 or more risk factors and risk score less than 10 %
Moderate risk
0 or 1 risk factor.
Low to Moderate risk
My Risk Category is-------------------
ESTIMATE OF 10-YEARS RISK FOR MEN AND WOMEN
Framingham Points Scores
Age
Points Males
Points Females
20-34
35-39
40-44
45-49
50-54
55-59
60-64
65-69
70-74
75-79
-9
-4
0
3
6
8
10
11
12
13
-7
-3
0
3
6
8
10
12
14
16
Age Males
|
Total cholesterol |
Age 20-39 |
Age40-49 |
Age50-59 |
Age60-69 |
Age70-79 |
|
<160 160-199 200-239 240-279 > or = 280 |
0 4 7 9 11 |
0 3 5 6 8 |
0 2 3 4 5 |
0 1 1 2 3 |
0 0 0 1 1 |
Age Females
|
Total cholesterol |
Age 20-39 |
Age40-49 |
Age50-59 |
Age60-69 |
Age70-79 |
<160 160-199 200-239 240-279 > or = 280 |
0 4 8 11 13 |
0 3 6 8 10 |
0 2 4 5 7 |
0 1 2 3 4 |
0 1 1 2 2 |
Age
Non Smoker
Smoker
Males
Females
Males
Females
Age 20-39
Age 40-49
Age 50-59
Age 60-69
Age 70-79
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
8
5
3
1
1
9
7
4
2
1
HDL (mg/dL)
Males
Females
> or =60
50-59
40-49
<40
-1
0
1
2
-1
0
1
2
Systolic BP (mm Hg)
Males
Females
If Untreated
If Treated
If Untreated
If Treated
<120
120-129
130-139
140-159
> or =160
0
0
1
1
2
0
1
2
2
3
0
1
2
3
4
0
3
4
5
6
ESTIMATE OF 10-YEARS RISK FOR WOMEN
ESTIMATE OF 10-YEARS RISK FOR MEN Points Total
10 Year Risk %
Points Total 10 Year Risk % <9
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
> or = 25
<1
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
4
5
6
8
11
14
17
22
27
> or = 30
<0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
> or =17
<1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
4
5
6
8
10
12
16
20
25
> or= 30