[Comment] Contemporary cardiovascular risk prediction

Cardiovascular disease remains an important health problem, accounting for 3 ·9 million deaths every year in Europe alone.1 To reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease, risk prediction models are widely used for risk-tailored management, such as antihypertensive and lipid-lowering treatment. More than 350 risk prediction models have been developed for cardiovascular d isease in the past decades. These models are mainly based on long-standing cohort data, but only a few models have been validated externally to test their generalisability in present settings.
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Comment Source Type: research