This section of the website contains advice for individuals managing patients at high cardiovascular risk, either in primary or secondary care. 90% of attributable risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) is due to smoking, blood pressure and cholesterol; therefore, risk reduction should centre around these 3 factors. Smoking cessation advice for primary care is available at NHSinform.scot. Advice on assessing cardiovascular risk, and the assessment & management of hypertension and hyperlipidaemia is below.Assessing cardiovascular riskNon-drug management of cardiovascular riskHypertensionAdherence testingHypercholesterolaemiaHypertriglyceridaemiaLinks & references A PDF version of these pages can be downloaded here: Document NHS Lothian Cardiovascular risk assessment management (507.34 KB / PDF) Quick-reference guides are below: Document Lothian Hypertension Guidelines 2022 (291.3 KB / PDF) Document NHS Lothian Guidelines - Hyperlipidaemia (803.08 KB / PDF) Document NHS Lothian Guidelines - Hypertriglyceridaemia (313.35 KB / PDF) NHS Lothian Acute Care Guidelines on Hypertension Further guidelines for NHS Lothian professionals on management of hypertension in the acute care setting can be accessed at Acute Hospital Management of Hypertension This article was published on 2025-05-05
