Ethnic-Specific Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction Scores

Ethnicity and prediction of cardiovascular disease: performance of QRISK2 and Framingham scores in a UK tri-ethnic prospective cohort study

P.M., Chaturvedi, N., Beauchamp, N., Baker, M., Coady, E., Collins, R., Forouhi, N., Gedroyc, W., Godsland, I., Hattersley, A., Key, D., Heasman, J., Majeed, A., March, K., Page, C., McGowan, A., Prince, M., Richards, M., Shibata, D., Stewart, R., Tuson, C., Willis, J., and Wright, A. (2014) Ethnicity and prediction of cardiovascular disease: performance of QRISK2 and Framingham scores in a UK ...

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...

Aviation Relevance of Genetic Risk Scores for Cardiovascular Disease

Multilocus genetic risk scores for coronary heart disease prediction.

OBJECTIVE Current guidelines do not support the use of genetic profiles in risk assessment of coronary heart disease (CHD). However, new single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with CHD and intermediate cardiovascular traits have recently been discovered. We aimed to compare several multilocus genetic risk score (MGRS) in terms of association with CHD and to evaluate clinical use. APPROACH...

Risk Prediction in Cardiovascular Medicine Cardiovascular Risk Prediction

Few topics have received as much attention in the cardiovascular literature over the last 5 years as risk prediction. The assessment of risk has been a key element in efforts to define risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD), to identify novel markers of risk for CVD, to identify and assess potential targets of therapy, and to enhance the cost-effective implementation of therapies for bot...