Performance of the American Heart Association's PREVENT Equations Among Disaggregated Racial and Ethnic Subgroups.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In the original validation, the Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Events (PREVENT) equations demonstrated good discrimination and calibration among racial and ethnic groups, but the model performance among Asian and Hispanic disaggregated subgroups has not been previously described.

Objective

To assess the performance of the PREVENT equations by race and ethnicity, including disaggregated Asian and Hispanic subgroups.

Design, setting, and participants

This was an electronic health record-based retrospective cohort study of primary care patients aged 30 to 79 years across Sutter Health, a large integrated health system in Northern California, from January 2010 to September 2023. Patients who had at least 2 primary care visits during the study p

SUBMITTER: Yan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12199177 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature