Who can use HeartScore®?
HeartScore® has been developed for use in clinical practice, and may be used by clinicians as well as nurses and any other health professionals involved in the primary prevention of CVD. HeartScore® may also be used for research purposes. HeartScore® is not intended to be used by people without a clinical background. The message conveyed by HeartScore® regarding the absolute and relative CVD risk of an individual must never stand alone and should always be communicated by health professionals. Risk information should be carefully adapted to the resources of individual patients. The intention behind the HeartScore® web-based program is not to impose unnecessary risk knowledge on a large group of people if they are not prepared to cope with the changes in lifestyle proposed. The idea is that doctor and patient determine together the risk reduction which will give the best results and which will be adapted to the individual patient and his or her ability to cope with these life-style chan
