Help for package vaRiskScore

Type:

Package

Title:

VA CVD Risk Score

Version:

2.0.0

Maintainer:

Xiaofei Chen <bill.nj08873@gmail.com>

Description:

Estimates the predicted 10-year cardiovascular (CVD) risk score (in probability) for civilian women, women military service members and veterans by inputting patient profiles. The proposed women CVD risk score improves the accuracy of the existing American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association CVD risk assessment tool in predicting long‐term CVD risk for VA women, particularly in young and racial/ethnic minority women. See the reference: Jeon‐Slaughter, H., Chen, X., Tsai, S., Ramanan, B., & Ebrahimi, R. (2021) <doi:10.1161/JAHA.120.019217>.

License:

GPL-3

Encoding:

UTF-8

RoxygenNote:

7.3.3

NeedsCompilation:

Packaged:

2025-12-04 06:40:05 UTC; billchen

Author:

Xiaofei Chen [aut, cre], Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter [aut]

Repository:

CRAN

Date/Publication:

2025-12-04 07:00:02 UTC

VA CVD Risk Score (2021)

Description

Calculates the cardiovascular (CVD) risk score for civilian women, women military service members and veterans.

Usage

vaScore(
  population = 1,
  age = 50,
  race = 1,
  SBPTrt = 1,
  SBP = 150,
  TC = 100,
  HDL = 50,
  DM = 1,
  Smoke = 1,
  Depression = 1,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

population

Military service (1 = Veteran, 2 = Current/Active, 3 = No Military)

age

Patient age (years: 1-110)

race

Patient race (1 = White, 2 = African American, 3 = Hispanic, 4 = Asian/Hawaiian Americans, 5 = American Indian/Indigenous Americans and Alaska Native)

SBPTrt

Patient is on a blood pressure medication (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

SBP

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg: 0-300)

TC

Total cholesterol (mg/dL: 0-400)

HDL

HDL cholesterol (mg/dL: 0-200)

DM

Diabetes (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

Smoke

Current smoker (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

Depression

Major Depression (1 = Yes, 0 = No)

verbose

logical: should input (patient profile) be printed.

Value

Estimated 10-year CVD Risk

Author(s)

Xiaofei Chen; Haekyung Jeon‐Slaughter

References

Jeon-Slaughter, H., Chen, X., Whyne, E.Z., Tsai, S., Barbosa, M.R., Ramanan, B., Bhushan, S., & Cao, D. (2025). External Validation of the Veterans Affairs Women Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score to Nonveteran Women. JACC Advances, 4(9).

Jeon‐Slaughter, H., Chen, X., Tsai, S., Ramanan, B., & Ebrahimi, R. (2021). Developing an internally validated veterans affairs women cardiovascular disease risk score using Veterans Affairs National Electronic Health Records. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(5), e019217.

Examples

library(vaRiskScore)
vaScore(population = 1,
        age = 50,
        race = 1,
        SBPTrt = 1,
        SBP = 150,
        TC = 100,
        HDL = 50,
        DM = 1,
        Smoke = 1,
        Depression = 1,
        verbose = TRUE)