Many Italian adults with low short-term CVD risk actually have high lifetime risk, highlighting the need for population-based prevention strategies, particularly in women and young men.
A large proportion of Italian adults not qualified for CVD primary prevention because of their very low short-time predicted CVD risk, are in fact at high risk to develop a CVD event in their lifetime; therefore population-based approaches should be sought to modify the overall distribution of individual risk factors. These findings offer helpful information for policy makers involved in contrasting the burden of CVD, especially in women and young men.
Castelnuovo et al. (Fri,) studied this question.