Why the study?
Do traditional cardiovascular risk factors assessed longitudinally versus cross-sectionally better predict clinical CHD and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis?
Do traditional cardiovascular risk factors assessed longitudinally versus cross-sectionally better predict clinical CHD and subclinical carotid atherosclerosis?
Longitudinal assessment of traditional risk factors is a stronger predictor of clinical CHD than cross-sectional assessment, whereas both methods similarly predict subclinical carotid atherosclerosis.
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Longitudinal risk factor data may better predict clinical CHD than cross-sectional measures; leaves open generalizability to subclinical atherosclerosis and other cohorts.
Nieto et al. (1999) studied this question.
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