April 22, 2010 — Almost two thirds of women and one fourth of men with substantial atherosclerosis will be missed if subjects are excluded from further screening because they are in the ...

"Many coronary events occur in patients without warning, and the need for an effective screening program has been recognized for many years. Historically, the Framingham risk score has been the ...

a standard score that doctors use to gauge a patient’s risk of heart disease, overestimated that risk in a population of healthy Spanish men and women. A version of the Framingham model ...

the Framingham Risk Score. It emerged from a massive study of heart disease risk factors in more than 5,000 men and women and pointed out advanced age, being male, smoking, having diabetes ...

Among men, we did not find an association between ... level and that it added to the information provided by the Framingham risk score. 12,38 Comparing C-reactive protein levels of at least ...

Table 4 Reclassification of Framingham Risk Score Categories after Addition of ... increased the net reclassification index for men and women (index, 6.7% and 9.2%, respectively), as well as ...

QRISK2 explained 33% of the variation in men and 40% for women ... performance compared with either QRISK2 or its predecessor, QRISK1. ‘The NICE Framingham risk score over-predicted 10-year risk of ...

That combination led to a predictive risk score, long called the "Framingham Coronary Heart Disease ... their blood pressure levels and another in men found that eating more fat led to a lower ...

Traditional cardiovascular disease risk indicators were SCORE2, SCORE2-OP, and the Framingham risk score. They consider chronological age, sex, and health or lifestyle factors but not the stage of ...

It seems that men, but not women ... at the visceral fat of the people involved in the study and used the Framingham Risk Score to assess participants’ cardiovascular risk.