vaRiskScore (version 2.0.0)

vaScore: VA CVD Risk Score (2021)

Description

Calculates the cardiovascular (CVD) risk score for civilian women, women military service members and veterans.

Usage

vaScore(
  population = 1,
  age = 50,
  race = 1,
  SBPTrt = 1,
  SBP = 150,
  TC = 100,
  HDL = 50,
  DM = 1,
  Smoke = 1,
  Depression = 1,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Value

Estimated 10-year CVD Risk

Arguments

population

Military service (1 = Veteran, 2 = Current/Active, 3 = No Military)

age

Patient age (years: 1-110)

race

Patient race (1 = White, 2 = African American, 3 = Hispanic, 4 = Asian/Hawaiian Americans, 5 = American Indian/Indigenous Americans and Alaska Native)

SBPTrt

Patient is on a blood pressure medication (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

SBP

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg: 0-300)

TC

Total cholesterol (mg/dL: 0-400)

HDL

HDL cholesterol (mg/dL: 0-200)

DM

Diabetes (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

Smoke

Current smoker (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

Depression

Major Depression (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

verbose

logical: should input (patient profile) be printed.

Author

Xiaofei Chen; Haekyung Jeon‐Slaughter

References

Jeon-Slaughter, H., Chen, X., Whyne, E.Z., Tsai, S., Barbosa, M.R., Ramanan, B., Bhushan, S., & Cao, D. (2025). External Validation of the Veterans Affairs Women Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score to Nonveteran Women. JACC Advances, 4(9).

Jeon‐Slaughter, H., Chen, X., Tsai, S., Ramanan, B., & Ebrahimi, R. (2021). Developing an internally validated veterans affairs women cardiovascular disease risk score using Veterans Affairs National Electronic Health Records. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(5), e019217.

Examples

library(vaRiskScore)
vaScore(population = 1,
        age = 50,
        race = 1,
        SBPTrt = 1,
        SBP = 150,
        TC = 100,
        HDL = 50,
        DM = 1,
        Smoke = 1,
        Depression = 1,
        verbose = TRUE)