External Validation of the Veterans Affairs Women Cardiovascular Disease Risk Score to Nonveteran Women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Veterans Affairs (VA) women cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk score is an internally validated tool to assess the ten-year atherosclerosis CVD (ASCVD) risk in women veterans and has been successfully applied to assess the CVD risk for women veterans.

Objectives

This study externally validated the VA women CVD risk score to assess the ASCVD risk in civilian women and young active-duty women military service members.

Methods

This study employed linear calibration models applied to the Cox model stratified by race and ethnicity group, non-Hispanic (N-H) White, N-H Black and Hispanic, and log-likelihood ratio tests in externally validating the VA women CVD risk score for 1,383 civilians (Dallas Heart Study) and 154,168 young active-duty military service mem

SUBMITTER: Jeon-Slaughter H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12359048 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature