Screening for future cardiovascular disease using age alone compared with multiple risk factors and age.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Risk factors such as blood pressure and serum cholesterol are used, with age, in screening for future cardiovascular disease (CVD) events. The value of using these risk factors with age compared with using age alone is not known. We compared screening for future CVD events using age alone with screening using age and multiple risk factors based on regular Framingham risk assessments.

Methods

Ten-year CVD risk was estimated using Framingham risk equations in a hypothetical sample population of 500,000 people aged 0-89 years. Risk estimates were used to identify individuals who did and did not have a CVD event over a ten-year period. For screening using age alone (age screening) and screening using multiple risk factors and age (Framingham screening) we estimated th

SUBMITTER: Wald NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3087724 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature