Short-Term Global Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction in Older Adults

BACKGROUND: Current prevention guidelines recommend using the Pooled Cohort Equation (PCE) for 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment. However, the PCE has serious limitations in older adults: it excludes heart failure (HF) hospitalization, estimates 10-year risk which...

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Published in:J Am Coll Cardiol
Main Authors: Saeed, Anum, Nambi, Vijay, Sun, Wensheng, Virani, Salim S., Taffet, George, Deswal, Anita, Selvin, Elizabeth, Matsushita, Kunihiro, Wagenknecht, Lynne E., Hoogeveen, Ron, Coresh, Josef, de Lemos, James A., Ballantyne, Christie M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5984171/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29535064
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2018.02.050
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