The majority of Lebanese have an unmet goal for ideal cardiovascular health contributing to increasing their cardiovascular risk age

The last European Society of Cardiology Guidelines highlighted that cardiovascular risk age (CRA) can be used in any population regardless of baseline risk and secular changes in mortality. This relieves the user from the need for recalibration. CRA also has the advantage of being independent of the cardiovascular (CV) endpoint used, which bypasses the dilemma of whether to use a risk estimation system based on CV mortality or on total CV events. In this study, we evaluated the unmet risk factor goals in a representative Lebanese sample and we calculated the mean CRA of the sample and compared it to the actual mean age. A random sample of Lebanese adults, residing in the Greater Beirut Area, was recruited. Interviews, physical exams, and blood tests were performed. After applying the exclusion criteria for the CRA equation on the sample population, CRA was calculated for the remaining group. A total of 490 participants were enrolled. 199 participants fit the criteria for CRA calculation. Participants of the total study population had a mean age of 45.4±15 years; whereas, the 199 participants had a mean age of 53.3±8.4 years and a mean CRA of 60±11.1 years. More than two thirds of individuals had at least three unmet goals for ideal CV health. These findings contributed to the seven-year difference between the mean CRA and the mean actual age showing that there is room for improvement in community preventive efforts.