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Objective tools to assess the risk for cardiovascular disease have been used to identify patients at high cardiovascular risk and candidates for preventive therapy. These researchers compared accuracy of four cardiovascular risk-prediction algorithms, published between 1998 and 2008, and the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk calculator, released in 2014 by the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC). Three algorithms are based on the Framingham risk score (FRS).
The analysis used 10 years of data on 4227 participants in the sex-balanced, community-based U.S. study, Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (mean age, 61.5; women, 54%; ethnicity: white, 42%; black, 26%; Hispanic, 20%; Chinese, 1…