NCD team organized a booth ‘Know Your Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Take Action!’ at the Seventy-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South- East Asia.
#RC76 considered SEAHEARTS, the platform which brings together risk factor reduction along with management of hypertension and diabetes. CVD risk assessment booth offered a non-lab based risk assessment to familiarize the topic and to offer an important service to the participants. Distinguished delegates and participants had an opportunity to know the application of the WHO CVD risk tool and to know their risk level. Consultation and counseling were provided along with a tape to measure waist circumference and a booklet ( Know Your Cardiovascular Disease Risk: Take Action! ). This is a simple method that can be used as a prescreening in low-resource settings when lab testing are not available to identify the people at high risk to undergo lab based CVD risk assessment or other diagnostic tests related to CVD. It requires only a simple set of parameters of age, sex, smoking status, systolic blood pressure and the Body Mass Index (BMI) evaluated against the country specific WHO CVD risk charts.A total of 208 Individuals underwent the screening and high officials of several countries requested WHO technical support in incorporating the non-lab based CVD risk assessment in population level screening programmes. The WHO PEN QR code was shared with participants to assess the WHO CVD risk calculator.
