Journal article
Prognostic validation of a non-laboratory and a laboratory based cardiovascular disease risk score in multiple regions of the world
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the performance of the non-laboratory INTERHEART risk score (NL-IHRS) to predict incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) across seven major geographic regions of the world. The secondary objective was to evaluate the performance of the fasting cholesterol-based IHRS (FC-IHRS).
METHODS: Using measures of discrimination and calibration, we tested the performance of the NL-IHRS (n=100 475) and FC-IHRS (n=107 863) for …
Authors
Joseph P; Yusuf S; Lee SF; Ibrahim Q; Teo K; Rangarajan S; Gupta R; Rosengren A; Lear SA; Avezum A
Journal
Heart, Vol. 104, No. 7,
Publisher
BMJ
Publication Date
4 2018
DOI
10.1136/heartjnl-2017-311609
ISSN
1355-6037