The estimated ten-year risk is at the center of both the US and European recommendations. For its calculation, in Europa the SCORE2 calculator can be used, which the European specialist society ESC developed over a year ago im »European Heart Journal« had introduced. Online tools that use the SCORE2 are freely available on the Internet, for example on the website of the Federal Association of Cardiologists in Practice at www.scores.bnk.de. However, general practitioners used this calculator loudly Zeiher still not enough, so that the primary preventive use of a statin is still largely a personal decision of the attending physician and is not done often enough.
