Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-25-2010

Publication Title

BioMed Central Medicine

Department

Geisel School of Medicine

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death and risk prediction formulae such as the Framingham Risk Score have been developed to easily identify patients at high risk that may require therapeutic interventions. Using cardiovascular risk formulae at a population level to estimate and compare average cardiovascular risk among groups has been recently proposed as a way to facilitate surveillance of net cardiovascular risk and target public health interventions. Risk prediction formulas may help to compare interventions that cause effects of different magnitudes and directions in several cardiovascular risk factors, because these formulas assess the net change in risk using easily obtainable clinical variables. Because of conflicting data estimates of the incidence and prevalence of cardiovascular disease, risk prediction formulae may be a useful tool to estimate such risk at a population level.

DOI

10.1186/1741-7015-8-29

Original Citation

Batsis JA, Lopez-Jimenez F. Cardiovascular risk assessment--from individual risk prediction to estimation of global risk and change in risk in the population. BMC Med. 2010 May 25;8:29. doi: 10.1186/1741-7015-8-29. PMID: 20500815; PMCID: PMC2890533.

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