Is the use of cholesterol in mortality risk algorithms in clinical guidelines valid? Ten years prospective data from the Norwegian HUNT 2 study

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Many clinical guidelines for cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention contain risk estimation charts/calculators. These have shown a tendency to overestimate risk, which indicates that there might be theoretical flaws in the algorithms. Total cholesterol is a frequentl...

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Autores principales: Petursson, Halfdan, Sigurdsson, Johann A, Bengtsson, Calle, Nilsen, Tom I L, Getz, Linn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21951982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01767.x

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21951982
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2011.01767.x

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