Predicting Risk of cardiovascular disease EVENTs (PREVENT™) Risk Calculator

The American Heart Association PREVENT™ risk calculator is designed to estimate cardiovascular disease risk based on cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health factors.
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The American Heart Association PREVENT™ calculator aims to help clinicians assess cardiovascular disease risk and facilitate clinician-patient discussions to optimize prevention of cardiovascular disease, including atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and heart failure.

What should you know about PREVENT™?

  • The PREVENT™ calculator is based on contemporary data from more than 6 million diverse U.S. adults and is more applicable to the general U.S. population than previous tools.
  • The calculator can estimate 10-year and 30-year risk in people from ages 30-79.
  • PREVENT™ includes kidney and metabolic health factors in the calculations for a holistic and more precise estimation of risk compared to previous tools.
  • PREVENT™ includes ZIP code for an estimation of social factors that influence health.

Access the PREVENT™ Calculator

Understanding Risk Assessment: Introducing the PREVENT™ Risk Calculator

Explore how the PREVENT™ risk calculator helps identify at-risk individuals differently than traditional tools. Dr. Sadiya Khan highlights the power of PREVENT™ to improve prevention, care, and research outcomes across diverse populations.

Intended Use of PREVENT™

This calculator is intended for use by clinicians for primary prevention patients (those without coronary heart disease, stroke, or heart failure) who are between the ages of 30-79 years. Estimating absolute risk may assist and guide clinicians and patients in shared decision-making.

Accessing the PREVENT™ open-source code

The American Heart Association is providing open access to the PREVENT™ source code through a license agreement. The code is available at no cost to health care professionals, health care clinics and systems, academic/research institutions, researchers and companies who provide health risk assessment tools.

Request the PREVENT™ Code

Infographic form of Instructions for access the PREVENT open-access source code through a license agreement.
  1. Read and accept the terms and conditions of the open-source license agreement
    • Obtain online agreement at heart.org/PREVENT
  2. Access AHA-DS-Analytics/PREVENT on GitHub
    • Provides access to Data Science Support tools including R and STATA
    • Provides documentation for building a PREVENT™ risk calculator
  3. Build a user interface (UI) internally or engage a third party
    • The code does not include a user interface and must be built
Infographic form of Instructions for optional method to access the PREVENT open-access source code through a license agreement.

OPTIONAL

Validate risk scoring values

Licensee provides AHA with sample PREVENT™ risk calculator outputs to ensure accuracy.

License PREVENT API through the AHA Center for Health Technology and Innovation

  • Includes UI and data validation
  • Enables batch uploading, data analytics and dashboard reporting
  • Includes automatic updates

PREVENT Frequently Asked Questions Expert Interview

Chiadi Ndumele, MD, PhD, MHS, chair of the AHA Presidential Advisory on Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health, leads a frequently asked questions discussion with Sadiyah S. Kahn, MD, MSc, lead author for the American Heart Association scientific statement that introduced the novel prediction equations used to develop the PREVENT risk calculator to help clinicians better understand how to make the best use of this new tool.

PREVENT for Primary Care

The American Heart Association PREVENT risk calculator is a tool for clinicians to help people understand their risk for developing heart disease, stroke, or heart failure. It is designed to estimate risk based on health factors that assess cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health. Hear Dr. Sadiya Khan and Dr. Howard Haft discuss the risk calculator and the considerations for prevention and primary care.

Resources

PREVENT Fact Sheet

preview thumbnail of PDF document: What to know about the American Heart Association’s PREVENTTM cardiovascular disease risk calculator
PREVENT Fact Sheet (PDF)

Clinical Slide Deck

preview thumbnail of PDF document: Novel Prediction Equations for Absolute Risk Assessment of Total Cardiovascular Disease Incorporating Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Health: A Scientific Statement From the AHA
Clinical Slide Deck (PDF)

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding the use, functionality, or the risks estimated with the PREVENT calculator, please email [email protected].