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Please select a sex. More Info

Links to Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) for Scottish postcodes only. Missing or unrecognised postcode will result in default SIMD of 20.0. To enter SIMD directly use box below.More Info

Scottish Index of Social Deprivation. To test the effect of deprivation on risk, test the effects of entering SIMD values of 5, 20 and 55 which come from the least, middle and most deprived fifths of the population.More Info

Has a close relative developed coronary heart disease or had a stroke before the age of 60? More Info

Diagnosed as diabetic? More Info

Average number of cigarettes smoked per day. More Info

Systolic blood pressure in millimetres of mercury (mmHg). In order to return a score the value entered should be between 80 and 250. More Info

Total cholesterol in millimoles per litre (mmol/l) or milligrams per decilitre (mg/dl). In order to return a score the value entered should be between 2 and 12.5 mmol/l, (or approx 77 to 483 mg/dl). 1 mmol/l = 38.67mg/dl, 1mg/dl = 0.02586 mmol/l. More Info

HDL cholesterol in millimoles per litre (mmol/l) or milligrams per decilitre (mg/dl). In order to return a score the value entered should be between 0.3 and 3.5 mmol/l, (or approx 12 to 135 mg/dl). 1 mmol/l = 38.67mg/dl, 1mg/dl = 0.02586 mmol/l. More Info

Is Left Ventricular Hypertrophy present?

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy was used as a risk factor in the Framingham study, based originally on electrocardiographic criteria, which we find unreliable (and most patients will not have had an echocardiogram), which is why it is not used in the ASSIGN score. The default answer to this question is ‘No’.