Mbuilu, Jody Pukuta2018-08-162018-08-162018https://hdl.handle.net/10539/25412A research report submitted to seek ethical clearance from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Family Medicine Johannesburg 2016.A preliminary study was done where South African Hypertension guideline risk score was compare with the WHO Cardiovascular risk score (for Southern Africa). At Mafikeng Provincial hospital 130 hypertensive patients were assessed using both scoring algorithms. Ninety (69%) of the 130 patients were high risk. The WHO risk score was able to classify 84 (93%) of the high risk patients by SA risk calculator also as high risk and 36 (90%) of the 40 low risk patients also as low risk. The WHO risk calculator has a sensitivity of 93% and a specificity of 90% with 89% accuracy.enCardiovascular DiseasesHypertensionThesis