Simplifying coronary artery disease risk stratification: development and validation of a questionnaire-based alternative comparable to clinical risk tools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronary artery disease (CAD) comprises one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality both in the European population and globally. All established clinical risk stratification scores and models require blood lipids and physical measurements. The latest reports of the European Commission suggest that attracting health professionals to collect these data can be challenging, both from a logistic and cost perspective, which limits the usefulness of established models and makes them unsuitable for population-wide screening in resource-limited settings, i.e., rural areas. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop and externally validate a questionnaire-based risk stratification model on a population scale at minimal cost, i.e., the Questionnaire-Based Evaluation

SUBMITTER: Kokkorakis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11732493 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature