CHARGE-AF (5-year Atrial Fibrillation Risk)

CHARGE-AF (Alonso 2013): a 5-year incident-atrial-fibrillation risk model from age, height, weight, blood pressure, race, smoking, antihypertensive use, diabetes, heart failure, and prior MI.

Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Age
65 years
Height
170 cm
Weight
80 kg
Systolic BP
130 mmHg
Diastolic BP
80 mmHg
White race
Yes
Antihypertensive medication
Yes

Result: CHARGE-AF 3.23% — estimated 5-year risk of incident atrial fibrillation.

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What the result means

Risk
5-year AF risk = 1 − 0.9718412736^exp(LP − 12.5815600). A routine-variable estimate used to select patients for AF screening; not an anticoagulation or monitoring order.

What you enter

  • Age
  • Height
  • Weight
  • Systolic BP
  • Diastolic BP
  • White race
  • Current smoker
  • Antihypertensive medication
The other 3 fields
  • Diabetes
  • Heart failure
  • Prior myocardial infarction
How this is calculated
Model
LP = 0.508·(age/5) + 0.465·white + 0.248·(height/10) + 0.115·(weight/15) + 0.197·(SBP/20) − 0.101·(DBP/10) + 0.359·smoker + 0.349·antiHTN + 0.237·diabetes + 0.701·HF + 0.496·MI.

Alonso A, Krijthe BP, Aspelund T, et al. Simple risk model predicts incidence of atrial fibrillation in a racially and geographically diverse population: the CHARGE-AF consortium. J Am Heart Assoc. 2013;2(2):e000102. Read the source ↗

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