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Article: New model improves heart disease risk assessment in women.(In The NEWS)(Report)
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- Life Extension
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- June 1, 2007
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To accurately assess heart disease risk in women, physicians must incorporate family history of the disease and C-reactive protein levels in their current methods of risk assessment, according to recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association. (1,2) While death rates from cardiovascular disease in men have steadily declined over the past 20 years, they have remained relatively stable for women. This discrepancy may arise from limitations inherent in the most commonly used risk-assessment model: the Framingham Risk Estimate.
The Framingham score is used to predict the 10-year risk of heart attack or death, based ...