Women up, men down: the clinical impact of replacing the Framingham Risk Score with the Reynolds Risk Score in the United States population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Reynolds Risk Score (RRS) is one alternative to the Framingham Risk Score (FRS) for cardiovascular risk assessment. The Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP III) integrated the FRS a decade ago, but with the anticipated release of ATP IV, it remains uncertain how and which risk models will be integrated into the recommendations. We sought to define the effects in the United States population of a transition from the FRS to the RRS for cardiovascular risk assessment.

Methods

Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, we assessed FRS and RRS in 2,502 subjects representing approximately 53.6 Million (M) men (ages 50-79) and women (ages 45-79), without cardiovascular disease or diabetes. We calculated the proportion reclassified by RRS and the subset w

SUBMITTER: Tattersall MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3440377 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature