Cardiovascular risk scores: Usefulness and limitations

Usefulness of risk scores to estimate the risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have an excess burden of cardiovascular (CV) disease (CVD). CV risk scores for the general population may not accurately predict CV risk for patients with RA. A population-based inception cohort of patients who fulfilled 1987 American College of Rheumatology criteria for RA from 1988 to 2007 was followed until death, migration, or December 31, 2008. CV ri...

On validation of cardiovascular risk scores.

In predictive modeling, as reviewed by these authors, historical data are used to predict a known future. Each model produces a risk score on a scale of 0-1 (or 0-100%), but each outcome is either an event or a non-event, so the score cannot ever be “valid”, except in an extreme situation. As in many of the papers reviewed, typically the basic definition of “validation” is stretched to include ...

Credit scores, cardiovascular disease risk, and human capital.

Credit scores are the most widely used instruments to assess whether or not a person is a financial risk. Credit scoring has been so successful that it has expanded beyond lending and into our everyday lives, even to inform how insurers evaluate our health. The pervasive application of credit scoring has outpaced knowledge about why credit scores are such useful indicators of individual behavio...

Cardiovascular risk scores in relation to social deprivation and ethnicity.

Inflammatory Cardiovascular Risk Biomarkers: Update on Novelties and Limitations

1Division of Cardiology, Department of Medical Specialties, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, Avenue de la Roseraie 64, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland 2First Medical Clinic, Laboratory of Phagocyte Physiopathology and Inflammation, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genoa, Viale Benedetto XV 6, 16100 Genoa, Italy 3 Laboratory of Hypertension, Department of Physiology a...