The Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium

NCT ID: NCT05466825

Last Updated: 2025-03-30

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Total Enrollment: 2500000 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-09-20
• Study Completion Date: 2028-06-30

Brief Summary

The Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium (GCVRC) brings together harmonized individual-level data from over 2 million individuals across 133 cohorts, 39 countries, and 6 continents, with recruitment ongoing. The GCVRC examines the impact of classical cardiovascular risk factors-such as body mass index, systolic blood pressure, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, current smoking, and diabetes-on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and death from any cause worldwide.

Detailed Description

A small number of modifiable risk factors may account for a significant proportion of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. However, the CVD burden attributable to classical risk factors depends on the populations studied and the methodologies used.

The Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium (GCVRC) is an international collaboration that continuously includes cohort studies from around the world to improve cardiovascular risk prediction. The GCVRC uses extensively harmonized individual-level data from currently more than 2 Mio individuals from 133 cohorts, 39 countries and 6 continents categorized in 8 geographical regions (based on a modification of WHO and United Nations definitions) - North America, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia, Asia, and Oceania.

The consortium has a special focus on classical, potentially modifiable cardiovascular risk factors: Body-mass index, systolic blood pressure, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, current smoking, and diabetes. Key research questions include examining the impact of these factors on major outcomes by geographical region and sex, as well as estimating associated lifetime risk and the potential lifetime difference when modifying these risk factors.

This work is critical for developing regionally tailored CVD prevention and treatment strategies, identifying residual risk, and improving global cardiovascular health. Based on GCVRC data, a landmark paper on the effect of classical risk factors on new-onset CVD and all-cause mortality was published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa2206916).

Conditions

All-cause Mortality; Cardiovascular Disease

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Population-based individual-level data with available information on the classical cardiovascular risk factors including body-mass index, systolic blood pressure, non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, current smoking, and diabetes, as well as the outcomes of interest.

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants with age below 18 years
• No information on the outcome of interest
• No information on the exposure of interest (CVD risk factors)
• History of CVD at baseline

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Prof. Dr. Stefan Blankenberg

Prof. Dr. med.

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Blankenberg

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Locations

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Hamburg, City state of Hamburg, Germany

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Germany

Central Contacts

Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Blankenberg

Role: CONTACT

s.blankenberg@uke.de

+49 (0)40 741056800

Prof. Dr. med. Christina Magnussen

Role: CONTACT

c.magnussen@uke.de

+49 (0) 40 741058206

Facility Contacts

Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Blankenberg

Role: primary

s.blankenberg@uke.de

+49 (0)40 741056800

Prof. Dr. med. Christina Magnussen

Role: backup

c.magnussen@uke.de

+49 (0)40 741058206

References

Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium; Magnussen C, Ojeda FM, Leong DP, Alegre-Diaz J, Amouyel P, Aviles-Santa L, De Bacquer D, Ballantyne CM, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Bobak M, Brenner H, Carrillo-Larco RM, de Lemos J, Dobson A, Dorr M, Donfrancesco C, Drygas W, Dullaart RP, Engstrom G, Ferrario MM, Ferrieres J, de Gaetano G, Goldbourt U, Gonzalez C, Grassi G, Hodge AM, Hveem K, Iacoviello L, Ikram MK, Irazola V, Jobe M, Jousilahti P, Kaleebu P, Kavousi M, Kee F, Khalili D, Koenig W, Kontsevaya A, Kuulasmaa K, Lackner KJ, Leistner DM, Lind L, Linneberg A, Lorenz T, Lyngbakken MN, Malekzadeh R, Malyutina S, Mathiesen EB, Melander O, Metspalu A, Miranda JJ, Moitry M, Mugisha J, Nalini M, Nambi V, Ninomiya T, Oppermann K, d'Orsi E, Pajak A, Palmieri L, Panagiotakos D, Perianayagam A, Peters A, Poustchi H, Prentice AM, Prescott E, Riserus U, Salomaa V, Sans S, Sakata S, Schottker B, Schutte AE, Sepanlou SG, Sharma SK, Shaw JE, Simons LA, Soderberg S, Tamosiunas A, Thorand B, Tunstall-Pedoe H, Twerenbold R, Vanuzzo D, Veronesi G, Waibel J, Wannamethee SG, Watanabe M, Wild PS, Yao Y, Zeng Y, Ziegler A, Blankenberg S. Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. N Engl J Med. 2023 Oct 5;389(14):1273-1285. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2206916. Epub 2023 Aug 26.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 37632466 (View on PubMed)

Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium; Magnussen C, Alegre-Diaz J, Al-Nasser LA, Amouyel P, Aviles-Santa L, Bakker SJL, Ballantyne CM, Bernabe-Ortiz A, Bobak M, Boffetta P, Brenner H, Brunstrom M, Can G, Carrillo-Larco RM, Checkley W, Dallongeville J, De Bacquer D, de Gaetano G, de Lemos JA, di Carluccio E, Dobson A, Donfrancesco C, Dorr M, d'Orsi E, Drygas W, Dullaart RPF, Engstrom G, Ferrario MM, Ferrieres J, Figtree GA, Gaye B, Ghayour-Mobarhan M, Goldbourt U, Gonzalez C, Gossling A, Grassi G, Gupta PC, He J, Hodge AM, Hozawa A, Hveem K, Iacoviello L, Ikram MK, Inoue M, Irazola V, Jobe M, Jousilahti P, Kaleebu P, Kavousi M, Kee F, Khalili D, Klotsche J, Koenig W, Kontsevaya A, Kowlessur S, Kuri-Morales P, Kuulasmaa K, Kweon SS, Lackner KJ, Landmesser U, Leistner DM, Leiva Sisnieguez CE, Leong D, Lind L, Linneberg A, Lorenz T, Lyngbakken MN, Malekzadeh R, Malyutina S, Mathiesen EB, McElduff P, Melander O, Metspalu A, Miranda JJ, Moitry M, Mugisha J, Munzinger J, Nalini M, Nambi V, Nilsson PM, Ninomiya T, Omland T, Ong SK, Oppermann K, Pajak A, Palmieri L, Panagiotakos D, Park SK, Pednekar MS, Perianayagam A, Peters A, Poustchi H, Prabhakaran D, Prentice AM, Prescott E, Quyyumi A, Riserus U, Sakata S, Salazar M, Salomaa V, Sans S, Sattler ELP, Schottker B, Schutte AE, Sepanlou SG, Sharma SK, Shaw J, Simons LA, Soderberg S, Tamosiunas A, Tapia-Conyer R, Thorand B, Tunstall-Pedoe H, Tuomilehto J, Twerenbold R, Vanuzzo D, Veronesi G, Wannamethee SG, Watanabe M, Weimann J, Wild PS, Yao Y, Zeng Y, Ziegler A, Ojeda FM, Blankenberg S; The Global Cardiovascular Risk Consortium. Global Effect of Cardiovascular Risk Factors on Lifetime Estimates. N Engl J Med. 2025 Jul 10;393(2):125-138. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2415879. Epub 2025 Mar 30.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 40162648 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

GCVRC001

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id