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Vascular age assessment may improve CV risk prediction, especially in young patients.
Vascular age is a conceptual tool that may improve cardiovascular risk prediction models and enhance understanding of risk, particularly in young patients.
May refine CV risk prediction in younger adults; leaves open prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Increasing interest to the problems of vascular ageing and need in novel parameters reflecting impact of this process on cardiovascular risk have led to the development of a concept of vascular age. Vascular age reflects cardiovascular risk. It is thought to improve cardiovascular risk prediction models and may contribute to a better understanding of cardiovascular risk, especially in young patients. The review summarizes the current knowledge on the definition, assessment and clinical significance of vascular age.
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Troitskaya et al. (2017) conducted a review in Cardiovascular risk. Vascular age assessment was evaluated. Vascular age assessment may improve cardiovascular risk prediction models and contribute to a better understanding of cardiovascular risk, especially in young patients.
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