Predicting cardiovascular risk in a Chinese primary Sjogren's syndrome population: development and assessment of a predictive nomogram.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) are at increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity as compared with the general population.

Objectives

A retrospective study on 349 Chinese patients with pSS was conducted to identify potential risk factors for cardiovascular events and develop a cardiovascular risk nomogram.

Design

This is a retrospective observational study.

Methods

The study included 349 patients who were diagnosed with pSS at Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, China from January 2010 to March 2022. The least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) was used to select features for the cardiovascular risk model. The features selected in LASSO were used to build the cardiovascular risk model in a multivariat

SUBMITTER: Pu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10357044 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature