Estimating modifiable coronary heart disease risk in multiple regions of the world: the INTERHEART Modifiable Risk Score

McGorrian, Catherine; Yusuf, Salim; Islam, S.; Suk Jung, Hyun; Rangarajan, Sumathy; Avezum, Álvaro; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; Almahmeed, Wael; Rumboldt, Zvonko; Budaj, Andrzej; L. Dans, Antonio; C. Gerstein, Hertzel; Teo, Koon; Anand, Subhash; behalf of the INTERHEART Investigators, on

doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehq448

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Estimating modifiable coronary heart disease risk in multiple regions of the world: the INTERHEART Modifiable Risk Score

Published in European Heart Journal • Dec 22, 2010

Authors:

Catherine McGorrian

Salim Yusuf

S. Islam

Abstract

AIMS: Summating risk factor burden is a useful approach in the assessment of cardiovascular risk among apparently healthy individuals. We aimed to derive and validate a new score for myocardial infarction (MI) risk using modifiable risk factors, derived from the INTERHEART case-control study (n = 19...

Subject

Medicine

Framingham Risk Score

Logistic regression

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