About NVDPA

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 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 (CVD).

The NVDPA’s Guidelines for the assessment of absolute cardiovascular disease risk were released in March 2009.

Building on this work the NVDPA released the Guidelines for the Management of Absolute Cardiovascular Disease Risk in May 2012. The guidelines were approved by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and provide recommendations for the management of CVD risk in the primary prevention setting. The guidelines incorporate guidance on assessing CVD risk in all adults over 45 years of age (35 years for A&TSI peoples) but unlike the 2009 version, the new guidelines extend the age range to include those over 74 years.

Use the following links to view: The full management guideline, Quick reference guide for health professionals (QRG) and consumer resource (Manage your risk)

The absolute risk calculator available on this website is a supporting tool to the NVDPA guidelines.
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What’s next for the NVDPA?

The NVDPA actively advocates a health system that supports an absolute risk approach to government and professional bodies. The NVDPA also aims to raise awareness among health professionals to use absolute risk assessment and management in their everyday practice.

An initiative of the National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance

What’s next for the NVDPA?

An initiative of the National Vascular Disease Prevention Alliance