Project Lead: Jule Anna Pleyer, Doris Giess
Authors: Jule Anna Pleyer, Lena Grabenhofer, Viktoria Hofer, Doris Giess, Julia Mayer-Ferbas
Publication: November 2025
Language: English (with German summary)
Cardiovascular diseases are among the most common causes of death and cost the EU around €282 billion annually. This research project uses a systematic review to compare various risk scores (e.g. SCORE2, ARRIBA, PROCAM) for assessing individual cardiovascular risk. Their predictive accuracy, usefulness and feasibility in Austrian preventive medical check-ups were analysed. The results show that long-term health benefits have not yet been proven. National adjustments, training and further validation studies would be necessary for their introduction.