Evaluation of the C2HEST Risk Score as a Possible Opportunistic Screening Tool for Incident Atrial Fibrillation in a Healthy Population (From a Nationwide Danish Cohort Study)

A simple clinical score, C2HEST (C2: CAD / COPD (1 point each); H: Hypertension; E: Elderly (Age ≥75, doubled); S: Systolic HF (doubled); T: Thyroid disease (hyperthyroidism)) has been proposed to predict incident AF, with good discrimination and internal calibration. To define high risk patients at particular age strata for incident AF in a nationwide population cohort, who could potentially be targeted for AF screening, we used a nationwide cohort study of all Danish citizen aged ≥65 years to evaluate the performance of the C2HEST score.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - October 9, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Gregory Y.H. Lip, Flemming Skj øth, Peter Brønnum Nielsen, Torben Bjerregaard Larsen Source Type: research