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Article: Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital target coronary heart disease.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 22, 2009
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According to recent research from the United States, "Prevention of diabetes and coronary heart disease (CHD) is possible but identification of at-risk patients for targeting interventions is a challenge in primary care. We analyzed electronic health record (EHR) data for 122,715 patients from 12 primary care practices."
"We defined patients with risk factor clustering using metabolic syndrome (MetS) characteristics defined by NCEP-ATPIII criteria; if missing, we used surrogate characteristics, and validated this approach by directly measuring risk factors in a subset of 154 patients. For subjects with at least 3 of 5 MetS criteria measured at baseline ...