Cardiovascular

2010 ACCF/AHA Guideline for Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk in
Asymptomatic Adults: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College
of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice
Guidelines Developed in Collaboration With the American Society of
Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, Society of
Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention,Society for Cardiovascular
Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Computed
Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Philip Greenland, Joseph S. Alpert, George A. Beller, Emelia J. Benjamin, Matthew
J. Budoff, Zahi A. Fayad, Elyse Foster, Mark A. Hlatky, John McB. Hodgson,
Frederick G. Kushner, Michael S. Lauer, Leslee J. Shaw, Sidney C. Smith, Jr, Allen
J.Taylor, William S. Weintraub, and Nanette K. Wenger
J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2010;56;2182-2199; originally published online Nov 15, 2010;
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2010.09.002

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Journal of the American College of Cardiology
© 2010 by the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association, Inc.
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Vol. 56, No. 25, 2010
ISSN 0735-1097/$36.00
doi:10.1016/j.jacc.2010.09.002

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2010 ACCF/AHA Guideline for Assessment ofCardiovascular Risk in Asymptomatic Adults:
Executive Summary
A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association
Task Force on Practice Guidelines
Developed in Collaboration With the American Society of Echocardiography, American Society of Nuclear Cardiology,
Society of Atherosclerosis Imaging and Prevention, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography andInterventions,
Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, and Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Writing
Committee
Members

ACCF/AHA
Task Force
Members

Philip Greenland, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair
Joseph S. Alpert, MD, FACC, FAHA
George A. Beller, MD, MACC, FAHA
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, SCM, FACC, FAHA*†
Matthew J. Budoff, MD, FACC, FAHA‡§
Zahi A. Fayad, PHD, FACC, FAHA¶
ElyseFoster, MD, FACC, FAHA#
Mark. A. Hlatky, MD, FACC, FAHA§**
John McB. Hodgson, MD, FACC, FAHA,
FSCAI‡§**††
Frederick G. Kushner, MD, FACC, FAHA†‡‡
Michael S. Lauer, MD, FACC, FAHA

Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, FAHA, Chair,
2009 –2011
Sidney C. Smith, JR, MD, FACC, FAHA,
Immediate Past Chair, 2006 –2008†††
Jeffrey L. Anderson, MD, FACC, FAHA,
Chair-Elect
Nancy Albert, PHD, CCNS, CCRNChristopher E. Buller, MD, FACC†††
Mark A. Creager, MD, FACC, FAHA
Steven M. Ettinger, MD, FACC
Robert A. Guyton, MD, FACC

This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation
Board of Trustees, the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee, and all cosponsoring organizations in September 2010.
The American College of Cardiology Foundationrequests that this document be cited
as follows: Greenland P, Alpert JS, Beller GA, Benjamin EJ, Budoff MJ, Fayad ZA,
Foster E, Hlatky MA, Hodgson JMcB, Kushner FG, Lauer MS, Shaw LJ, Smith SC, Jr.,
Taylor AJ, Weintraub WS, Wenger NK. 2010 ACCF/AHA guideline for assessment of
cardiovascular risk in asymptomatic adults: executive summary: a report of the American
College of CardiologyFoundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice
Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010;56:2182–99.

Leslee J. Shaw, PHD, FACC, FAHA§§
Sidney C. Smith, JR, MD, FACC, FAHA ¶¶
Allen J. Taylor, MD, FACC, FAHA##
William S. Weintraub, MD, FACC, FAHA
Nanette K. Wenger, MD, MACC, FAHA
*ACCF/AHA Task Force on Performance Measures Liaison; †Recused
from voting on Section 10, Lipoprotein-Associated...