Table 5

Performance of the joint British recommendations risk charts

Joint British guidelines:
10 year CHD risk > 30%
Joint British guidelines:
10 year CHD risk > 15%
Revised joint British guidelines: 10 year CHD
risk > 30%
Revised joint British guidelines: 10 year CHD
risk > 15%
True positives 4123950260
False positives  21282
True negatives630388624398
False negatives 1852931
Sensitivity (%) (95% CI) 69.5 (51.8 to 81.9)82.1  (76.6  to  86.7)84.7  (71.0  to  93.0)89.4  (84.8  to  92.7)
Specificity (%) (95% CI) 99.7 (98.9 to 100)97.0 (94.8 to  98.4)98.7 (97.5 to  99.5)99.5 (98.1 to  99.9)
Positive predictive value (%) (95% CI) 95.3 (83.2 to 99.4)95.2 (91.6 to  97.5)86.2 (72.9 to  94.1)99.2 (97.2 to  99.9)
Negative predictive value (%) (95% CI) 97.2 (95.6 to 98.4)88.2 (84.5 to  91.2)98.5 (97.3 to  99.4)92.7 (89.7 to  95.1)