World Health Organization cardiovascular disease risk charts: revised models to estimate risk in 21 global regions

To help adapt cardiovascular disease risk prediction approaches to low-income and middle-income countries, WHO has convened an effort to develop, evaluate, and illustrate revised risk models. Here, we report the derivation, validation, and illustration of the revised WHO cardiovascular disease risk prediction charts that have been adapted to the circumstances of 21 global regions.In this model revision initiative, we derived 10-year risk...