Validation of the Framingham Coronary Heart Disease Prediction Scores

Abstract

The sex-specific Framingham CHD prediction functions perform well among whites and blacks in different settings and can be applied to other ethnic groups after recalibration for differing prevalences of risk factors and underlying rates of CHD events.

Keywords

Framingham Risk ScoreMedicineFramingham Heart StudyDemographyPopulationGerontologyCoronary heart diseaseMyocardial infarctionInternal medicineDiseaseEnvironmental health

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National Institutes of Health US

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Year: 2001
Type: article
Volume: 286
Issue: 2
Pages: 180-180
Citations: 2083
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                                    Ralph B. D’Agostino, 
                                
                                    Scott M. Grundy, 
                                
                                    Lisa Sullivan
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2001). 
                            Validation of the Framingham Coronary Heart Disease Prediction Scores. 
                            JAMA
                            , 286
                            (2)
                            , 180-180.
                            https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.286.2.180
                        

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DOI: 10.1001/jama.286.2.180