Framingham scrapped: Heart Foundation releases new CVD risk calculator and guidelines

The guidelines also include new risk categories and population-specific recommendations.
Professor Garry Jennings.

GPs now have access to revamped CVD prevention guidelines and a risk calculator, with the outdated Framingham-based equation officially consigned to the scrap heap.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