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Value and Limitations of Existing Scores for the Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk
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Atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the biggest causes of death worldwide. In most people, CVD is the product of a number of causal risk factors. Several seemingly modest risk factors may, in combination, result in a much higher risk than an impressively raised single factor. For this reason, risk estimation systems have been developed to assist clinicians to assess the effects of risk factor combinations in planning management strategies. In this article, the performances of the major risk estimation systems are reviewed. Most perform usably well in populations that are similar to the one used to derive the system, and in other populations if calibrated to allow for different CVD mortality rates and different risk factor distributions. The effect of adding "new" risk factors to age, sex, smoking, lipid status, and blood pressure is usually small, but may help to appropriately reclassify some of those patients who are close to a treatment threshold to a more correct "treat/do not treat" category. Risk estimation in the young and old needs more research. Quantification of the hoped-for benefits of the multiple risk estimation approach in terms of improved outcomes is still needed. But, it is likely that the widespread use of such an approach will help to address the issues of both undertreatment and overtreatment.
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“Risk age has been shown to be independent of the CV endpoint used [6,8], can be used in any population regardless of baseline risk or secular changes in mortality, and therefore avoids the need for recalibration.”
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“In practice, most risk estimation systems perform rather similarly when applied to populations recognizably similar to that from which the risk estimation system was derived, 6,7 and can be re-calibrated for use in different populations.6”
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“Risk age has been shown to be independent of the CV endpoint used, 51,52 which bypasses the dilemma of whether to use a risk estimation system based on CVD mortality or on the more attractive but less reliable endpoint of total CVD events.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cooney, M. T., Dudina, A. L., & Graham, I. M.
- Affiliations
- Tallaght University Hospital (IE)
- Corresponding author
- Graham, Ian M.
- Venue
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-09
- Volume
- 54
- Issue
- 14
- Pages
- 1209-1227
- ISSN
- 0735-1097 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W197402492
- Cited by
- 436
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 3.98
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Lenus, The Irish Health Repository (Dr Steevens Hospital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Health Promotion and Cardiovascular Prevention
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Keywords
- cardiovascular risk assessment, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, risk factor combinations, calibration, undertreatment, overtreatment, young and elderly patients, cardiovascular mortality
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Cardiovascular Diseases, Humans, Models, Cardiovascular, Risk Factors, Risk Assessment
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