Cardiovascular Disease risk assessment

Question 1

How would you perform a CVD risk assessment?

Answer 1

• Q-risk assessment tool

Question 2

What does the Q-risk assessement tool calculate

Answer 2

The estimated CVD risk within the next 10 years for patients who are 25 to 84
(including people with type 2)

Question 3

Who can you not use Q-risk on?

Answer 3

-Patient who already have CVD
- Type 1 diabetes
-eGFR <60
-familial hypercholesteremia
-85>

Question 4

What does the Q-risk score entail?

Answer 4

-ages, sex, ethnicity, postcode
-clinical info- smoking status, family history, systolic BP , height, weight, total cholesterol/HDL ratio from non-fasting blood sample

-Repeated every 5 years

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Question 5

How would a patient with a Q-risk score of greater than 10% be managed?What

Answer 5

Offer a statin if lifestyle modification is ineffective or inappropriate.

Question 6

What drugs treatments should you offer primary prevention of CVD?

Answer 6

Atorvastatin 20mg a day