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Simple and adaptable R implementation of WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts for all epidemiological subregions of the world

[version 1; peer review: 3 approved with reservations]
PUBLISHED 14 Oct 2016
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Abstract

The World Health Organisation and International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment charts have been implemented in many low- and middle-income countries as part of the WHO Package of Essential Non-Communicable Disease (PEN) Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource settings. Evaluation of the WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts and their use is a key priority and since they only exist in paper or PDF formats, we developed a simple R implementation of the charts for all epidemiological subregions of the world. The main strengths of this implementation are that it is built in a free, open-source, coding language with simple syntax, can be modified by the user, and can be used with a standard computer.

Keywords

WHO/ISH, Cardiovascular Risk Charts, Risk Score, R

Introduction

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death worldwide, including in many low-and-middle income countries (LMIC)1,2. Preventing CVD is therefore a worldwide priority and the World Health Organisation (WHO) is coordinating a global strategy for LMIC to systematically prevent CVD in primary care3.

In 2007 the WHO and the International Society of Hypertension (ISH) published the WHO/ISH CVD risk charts for all WHO epidemiological subregions of the world4. These charts are to be used as part of the WHO’s Package of Essential NCD (PEN) Interventions for Primary Health Care in Low-Resource Settings in jurisdictions that do not have their own population-derived risk assessment algorithms. While these charts are a good resource for many health systems, little is known about their validity5. Therefore, it is important that jurisdictions that implement these charts conduct operational research and attempt to validate and optimise them for their setting.

Two paper-based versions of WHO/ISH charts are available for each subregion: one that requires measured total cholesterol and one that does not. The latter was made available for use in settings with limited access to laboratory testing or where the cost of cholesterol testing is prohibitive. Both charts require information on age, gender, diabetes status, smoking status, and systolic blood pressure to stratify people into one of five risk categories of 10-year risk of a fatal or non-fatal CVD event. Further instructions for their use have been published3.

Through our experience collaborating with LMIC with the implementation of WHO PEN, we identified a common need for an open-source tool to facilitate the implementation of WHO/ISH risk charts and operational research of WHO PEN at a population level. We therefore developed an open source tool in R (https://www.r-project.org/), which we describe here and make available to researchers in LMIC.

Methods

Extraction of WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts

We extracted all versions of the paper-based WHO/ISH CVD risk charts by hand into a standardized Microsoft Excel template, independently and in duplicate. We used RStudio (version 0.99.489) to compare the duplicate extractions and to calculate Cohen’s kappa coefficient for inter-rater reliability, using the irr package (version 0.84). Discrepancies were reviewed by the same two extractors and resolved by referring to the original paper chart.

Development of the WHO/ISH risk function

One author wrote the initial code for the WHO/ISH risk function in R (DC). This was reviewed and adapted by a second author experienced in the R language (CK). Two additional authors (JL, NB), new to the R language, reviewed the code to ensure the syntax was simple and comprehensible.

Validation

A MatLab implementation of WHO/ISH risk charts for epidemiological subregion SEAR D had been previously reported6. We used Octave (www.gnu.org/software/octave/) version 8.3.2 to calculate the SEAR D WHO/ISH risk score for every possible combination of risk factors using the previously reported MatLab implementation, and compared the percent agreement to the risk scores generated by our R implementation.

Results

Extraction of WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk charts

All WHO/ISH risk charts were extracted by hand into a single comma delimited file (Dataset 1). Our function is dependent on this file. Cohen’s kappa for initial agreement between the independent extractors was 0.97, indicating excellent agreement. All remaining discrepancies were resolved by consensus.

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Dataset 1.CSV file required for function (file name= “WHO_ISH_Scores.csv”).

Development of the WHO/ISH risk function

We developed a simple function, named WHO_ISH_Risk(), that, when loaded in the R workspace, will calculate the WHO/ISH risk score for any epidemiological subregion (Dataset 2) (Figure 1). We intentionally used simple syntax such that users with a beginner’s level of experience with R can adapt the code as needed.

Dataset 2.Code for the WHO_ISH_Risk() function and worked example (file name = “Worked_Example.rtf”).
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Figure 1. The WHO_ISH_Risk() function code in R.

The WHO_ISH_Risk function requires seven parameters: age, gender, smoking status, diabetes status, systolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, and the appropriate WHO epidemiological subregion. These parameters and their codes are summarised in Table 1. The function format in the workspace is: WHO_ISH_Risk(age, gdr, smk, sbp, dm, chl, subregion). No default values are specified for any parameter.

Table 1. Description of the WHO_ISH_Risk() function parameters.

Function
parameter
Full parameter
name
Parameter
class
Parameter values
ageAgenumericContinuous (years)
gdrGendernumericDichotomous
(0=female; 1=male)
smkSmokingnumericDichotomous (0=not
smoker; 1=smoker)
sbpSystolic blood
pressure
numericContinuous (mmHg)
dmDiabetes
mellitus status
numbericDichotomous
(0=non-diabetic;
1=diabetic)
chlTotal cholesterolnumericContinuous (mmol/
L); 0=unknown
cholesterol
subregionWHO
epidemiological
subregion
character“AFR_D”, “AFR_E”,
“AMR_A”, “AMR_B”,
“AMR_D”,“EMR_B”,
“EMR_D”, “EUR_A”,
“EUR_B”, EUR_C”,
“SEAR_B”, “SEAR_
D”, “WPR_A”,
“WPR_B”

WHO_ISH_Risk() function uses the base package in R and requires no package dependencies. Once the function is loaded in the workspace, it requires access to the comma delimited file named “WHO_ISH_Scores.csv” (Dataset 1). The user needs to ensure that this file is accessible in the working directory of R before running the WHO_ISH_Risk() function. We have included a worked example of how to use the function in Dataset 2.

Internally, the WHO_ISH_Risk() function creates a data frame of the risk factor values passed to it (Figure 1). It then categorises the continuous parameters age, systolic blood pressure, and total cholesterol. Age and systolic blood pressure were categorised according to WHO guidance7. Total cholesterol was categorised according to common clinical practice, rounding up from 0.5 to the nearest integer. The categorisation boundaries can be adapted by the user as needed.

A unique identification code is generated corresponding to the combinations of risk factors for each individual. This code is matched to a reference code from the “WHO_ISH_Scores.csv” file, which the function automatically calls into the workspace (Dataset 1). Internally, the function stores the risk scores in a data frame that includes the risk factors, and ultimately returns a vector containing the risk scores.

Validation

Comparison with the published MatLab implementation of the SEAR D risk charts6 showed 100% agreement with our R implementation, for all possible combinations of risk factors.

Discussion

To our knowledge, this is the first publically available R implementation of WHO/ISH CVD risk charts for all WHO epidemiological subregions of the world. Our implementation may be used for analysis of cardiovascular risk when electronic patient data is available. The code will automatically apply WHO/ISH risk scores to patients based on age, gender, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, diabetes status, total cholesterol, and epidemiological subregion. This code could be used, for example, during a pilot implementation of WHO PEN to audit the accuracy of risk assessment by comparing documented risk scores to actual risk scores calculated using this tool. We have provided a complete worked example in the data files. While more sophisticated implementations are possible, we intentionally sought to use simple syntax in the base package to allow for easy interpretation and use by novice R users on standard computers.

Although we modelled the function based on WHO PEN guidance for risk assessment, we recognise that some users may wish to change the boundaries of certain risk factor parameters. While WHO PEN guidance specifies the range of systolic blood pressure values for each systolic blood pressure category, it provides no such guidance for categorising total cholesterol. Based on our opinion and clinical experience, and on a previously published implementation in MatLab6, we chose to categorise total cholesterol by rounding up at 0.5 to the next integer. These boundaries could be changed by users to adapt to local practice. We caution changing the boundaries beyond recommended guidance.

The “WHO_ISH_Scores.csv” file can be adapted by the user if desired. Each row of the file represents one unique combination of risk factors. The first six columns specify the risk factor values, and the last 14 columns specify the corresponding risk category for a given subregion. These risk categories can be changed by the user, but in their current state they represent the WHO/ISH risk charts as published.

Conclusion

We created a simple R implementation of WHO/ISH CVD risk charts for all WHO epidemiological subregions of the world, requiring only the base R package. It has one dependency file from which it draws the WHO/ISH risk scores based on a combination of seven parameters: age, gender, systolic blood pressure, smoking status, diabetes status, total cholesterol, and epidemiological subregion. This tool can be used, and adapted, by policy-makers and researchers involved in the implementation and evaluation of WHO/ISH CVD risk charts.

Data and software availability

F1000Research: Dataset 1. CSV file required for function (file name= “WHO_ISH_Scores.csv”), 10.5256/f1000research.9742.d1383098

F1000Research: Dataset 2. Code for the WHO_ISH_Risk() function and worked example (file name = “Worked_Example.rtf”), 10.5256/f1000research.9742.d1383109

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    Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
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    Dear Rajarshi Guha, 

    Thank you for reading our work. I've created a plain text format version of Dataset 2 which is the dataset that contains the R code and ... Continue reading
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    Rajarshi Guha, National Institutes of Health, USA
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    Please make the R code available in plain text format.
    Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed.
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Maria Suarez-Diez, Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University and Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands 
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The authors present an R script and an additional datafile to calculate cardiovascular risk using the Who/ISH risk assessment charts. Previous implementations required the use of MatLab and I believe an R implementation can be an useful addition to the ... Continue reading
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    Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
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    Dear Maria Suarez-Diez,

    Thank you for your valuable comments. In response we have made the following changes:
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    Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
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    Dear Maria Suarez-Diez,

    Thank you for your valuable comments. In response we have made the following changes:
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Scott A. Chamberlain, rOpenSci project, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA 
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The authors describe some R code for helping to calculate cardiovascular risk scores. I think the code needs significant work.  
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    Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
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    Dear Scott A. Chamberlain,

    Thank you for your thoughtful and considered feedback. We have responded in the updated version as detailed below.
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    Thank you for your thoughtful and considered feedback. We have responded in the updated version as detailed below.
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The paper describes a software tool for calculation of WHO/ISH cardiovascular risk scores for different epidemiological subregions of the world. This could be a useful piece of software for researchers working with cardiovascular epidemiological data and make the practices for ... Continue reading
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    Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
    08 Mar 2017
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    Dear Raivo Kolde,

    Thank you for your insightful review and comments. In response we have made the following changes:
    • As suggested, we created an R package which
    ... Continue reading
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  • Author Response 08 Mar 2017
    Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
    08 Mar 2017
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    Dear Raivo Kolde,

    Thank you for your insightful review and comments. In response we have made the following changes:
    • As suggested, we created an R package which
    ... Continue reading

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Version 2
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VERSION 1 PUBLISHED 14 Oct 2016
Discussion is closed on this version, please comment on the latest version above.
  • Author Response 20 Oct 2016
    Dylan Collins, University of British Columbia, Canada
    20 Oct 2016
    Author Response
    Dear Rajarshi Guha, 

    Thank you for reading our work. I've created a plain text format version of Dataset 2 which is the dataset that contains the R code and ... Continue reading
  • Reader Comment 18 Oct 2016
    Rajarshi Guha, National Institutes of Health, USA
    18 Oct 2016
    Reader Comment
    Please make the R code available in plain text format.
    Competing Interests: No competing interests were disclosed.
  • Discussion is closed on this version, please comment on the latest version above.
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