Paige, EllieO'Donoughue Jenkins, LilyAgostino, JasonPennings, SusanWade, VickiLovett, RaymondDaluwatta, AmandaMcLoughlin, KirstieBanks, Emily2020-02-042020-02-042204-2091http://hdl.handle.net/1885/200956Australia’s absolute cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment algorithm1 first examines whether individuals meet criteria for clinically determined high CVD risk and, in those not meeting these criteria, applies the Framingham Risk Equation to estimate an individual’s risk of having a CVD event in the next 5 years. The same risk equation is used for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, although there is variation in underlying risk across the two populations, with the former experiencing a greater burden of cardiovascular risk factors.This research was funded by a grant from the Australian Government Department of Health.5 pagesapplication/pdfen-AU© 2019 Paige et alhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/2019-0810.17061/phrp292319102021-11-28This article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence, which allows others to redistribute, adapt and share this work non-commercially provided they attribute the work and any adapted version of it is distributed under the same Creative Commons licence terms.