Why the study?
Do the Framingham Risk Score, SCORE, and WHO/ISH models accurately predict 5-year cardiovascular mortality in a Malaysian population?
Population
14,863 participants aged 40 to 65 years from a national population-based survey in Malaysia.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
73,277 person-years
Authors
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Supports preferring FRS or SCORE over WHO/ISH for CV risk assessment in Malaysians; leaves open need for recalibration and prospective validation.
Do the Framingham Risk Score, SCORE, and WHO/ISH models accurately predict 5-year cardiovascular mortality in a Malaysian population?
The FRS and SCORE-high models demonstrate good discrimination for predicting 5-year cardiovascular mortality in the Malaysian population, whereas the WHO/ISH model performs poorly.
Selvarajah et al. (2014) studied this question.
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