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The National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance (NVDPA) is an alliance of four leading and well-known Australian charities: Diabetes Australia, the National Heart Foundation of Australia, Kidney Health Australia and the National Stroke Foundation. In 2000, these four charities began to work together to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in Australia. Much of the work of the NVDPA to date has been to promote the use of an ‘absolute risk’ approach to predicting risk of cardiovascular disease. The NVDPA’s Guidelines for the assessment of absolute cardiovascular disease risk is the outcome of a detailed and thorough process based on evidence and consensus from key experts. These guidelines were released in March 2009 and have been endorsed by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. The absolute risk calculator available on this website is based on the NVDPA guidelines. If you have any feedback on the website or further queries, please do not hesitate to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it us. What’s next for the NVDPA?The NVDPA is working hard to advocate to government and professional bodies for a health system that supports an absolute risk approach. The NVDPA also aims to raise awareness among health professionals to use absolute risk assessment in their everyday practice. Finally, the NVDPA is currently developing a management guideline to sit alongside the assessment guidelines. |