Why the study?
Does a prior estimate of cardiovascular risk using default risk factor values improve the identification of patients at >20% ten-year cardiovascular risk compared to age or treatment status?
Does a prior estimate of cardiovascular risk using default risk factor values improve the identification of patients at >20% ten-year cardiovascular risk compared to age or treatment status?
Using routine primary care data with default values for missing risk factors can accurately prioritize patients for formal cardiovascular risk assessment.
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May support prioritizing primary care patients for formal CV risk assessment using minimal data; leaves open prospective outcome validation.
Tom Marshall (2008) studied this question.
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