Performance of the Framingham coronary heart disease risk score for predicting 10-year cardiac risk in adult United Arab Emirates nationals without diabetes: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Primary prevention guidelines recommend the use of the Framingham risk score (FRS) to estimate the 10-year coronary heart disease (CHD) risk in patients without diabetes for statin eligibility. However, the FRS model has never been validated in an Arab population. Therefore, this study a...

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Autor principal: Al-Shamsi, Saif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32847496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01246-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7450595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32847496
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12875-020-01246-2

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