GPs now have access to revamped CVD prevention guidelines and a risk calculator, with the outdated Framingham-based equation officially consigned to the scrap heap. 

The new Australian CVD Risk Calculator — developed by the National Heart Foundation of Australia and endorsed by the RACGP — is a recalibrated version of the contemporary PREDICT-1° algorithm based on a New Zealand primary cohort study.

Heart Foundation chief medical advisor Professor Garry Jennings, who unveiled the new guidelines alongside federal Minister for Health and Aged Care Mark Butler on Thursday, said it would lead to better patient outcomes.

“It is from a population more relevant to Australia, and we think it is more predictive and hopefully more valuable,” he told AusDoc.