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Heart Disease Risk Calculator

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Cheers - I'm a big fan of providing these sort of lightweight applications in conjunction with a research publication. There's a real issue with reproducible research (particularly, though not limited to, the medical field) and this type of thing is a step in the right direction.

Could you provide a link to the code for the algorithm you're implementing? (If I were a better developer, I'd probably be able to find it through your source code, but alas...)

Also, I'd suggest you limit the input fields to numbers within the allowable range. Or, at the very least, to positive numbers.

I should point out that I didn't develop it. It was created by the people at Symcat. They are certainly open to any feedback, here's the blog post: http://blog.symcat.com/post/67337436520/cv-risk-calculator-r...

Completely agree with reproducibility of research. Would be great to further improve such algorithms using data collected from the public--selection issues and inaccuracies aside.

The algorithm is in the appendix of the article the tool links to.

Input fields are limited via javascript so may not have worked if you have it disabled. You're right we should do it server side as well.

Thanks for the feedback.

Seriously, thank you for this. I have a huge amount of anxiety over heart disease. All of my grandparents' brothers and sisters on bot sides died of stroke or heart attack in their mid-30s.

I am 27.

I keep a good eye on all of my cholesterol stats and my blood pressure. I can see myself using this tool a lot.

Glad you found it useful. Stay tuned for similar tools.

Not to rain on your parade, but who has their cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and systolic blood pressure measurements at hand?

Fair enough, but some people do and more people should. If you are being granted access to your records, electronically, by your physician, then you should know (it's a part of the second phase meaningful use requirement for emr).

If I get bloodwork done I go to Quest, so I can access my results using their Gazelle app on the iphone - it's not the greatest but it works.

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