essential8: Reproducible Cardiovascular Health Metric Scoring

Provides a reproducible R implementation of the American Heart Association Life's Essential 8 cardiovascular health scoring framework for adult records from people aged 20 years or older. Calculates the eight component scores and their unweighted composite score from available component data using the 2022 adult definition described by Lloyd-Jones et al. (2022) <doi:10.1161/CIR.0000000000001078>.

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AuthorCarson Richardson [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8710-1097>), Amrik Khalsa [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4609-5194>), Sara Conroy [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-9456>)
MaintainerCarson Richardson <carson.richardson@outlook.com>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.2.0
URL https://thatoneguy006.github.io/essential8/  https://github.com/thatoneguy006/essential8 
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("essential8")

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