Predicting personal cardiovascular disease risk based on family health history: Development of expert-based family criteria for the general population.

ABSTRACT: In inherited and familial cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), relatives without current symptoms can still be at risk for early and preventable cardiovascular events. One way to help people evaluate their potential risk of CVD is through a risk-assessment tool based on family health history. However, family criteria including inherited CVD risk to be used by laypersons are non-existent. In this project, we employed a qualitative study design to develop expert-based family criteria for use in individual risk assessment. In the first phase of the project, we identified potential family criteria through an online focus group with physicians with expertise in monogenic and/or multifactorial CVDs. The family criteria from phase one were then used as input for a three-round Delphi procedure carried

SUBMITTER: Dijkstra T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10689818 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature