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. 2021 Jan 21;6(1):e003499. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003499

Table 4.

Agreement and correlation of 10-year CVD risk algorithms across the entire study population, AWI-Gen baseline data

WHO-CVD (lab) WHO-CVD (office) Globorisk (lab) Globorisk (office) Framingham (lab)
Framingham (office)
kappa (95% CI) 0.03 (0.03–0.04)** 0.04 (0.04–0.05)* 0.41 (0.39–0.43)** 0.52 (0.51–0.55)** 0.52 (0.51–0.54)**
Spearman’s correlation 0.28** 0.32** 0.64** 0.70** 0.70**
Framingham (lab)
kappa (95% CI) 0.08 (0.07–0.93)** 0.12 (0.11–0.13)** 0.55 (0.53–0.57)* 0.52 (0.50–0.54)**
Spearman’s correlation 0.32** 0.36** 0.66** 0.64**
Globorisk (office)
kappa (95% CI) 0.10 (0.09–0.12)** 0.12 (0.10–0.13)** 0.64 (0.62–0.67)*
Spearman’s correlation 0.32** 0.40** 0.74**
Globorisk (lab)
kappa (95% CI) 0.12 (0.11–0.14)** 0.18 (0.16–0.20)**
Spearman’s correlation 0.38** 0.42**
WHO-CVD (office)
kappa (95% CI) 0.58 (0.52–0.63)**
Spearman’s correlation 0.61**
kappa agreement <0.4 (poor) 0.41–0.60 (moderate) 0.61–0.80 (substantial)

*p<0.05; **p<0.0001.

AWI-GEN, Africa-Wits-INDEPTH partnership for Genomic studies; CVD, cardiovascular disease.