Clustering of cardiovascular risk factors highlighted the coronary artery calcium as a strong clinical discriminator
| Autor: | C. M. Bucci, Ricardo L. Armentano, W. E. Legnani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Framingham Risk Score Discriminator business.industry Cardiovascular risk factors Biomedical Engineering Bioengineering Disease 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Blood pressure chemistry Low-density lipoprotein Internal medicine Diabetes mellitus medicine Cardiology 030212 general & internal medicine business Cluster analysis Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Health and Technology. 6:159-165 |
| ISSN: | 2190-7196 2190-7188 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12553-016-0139-1 |
| Popis: | Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of mortality. Many times healthcare professionals tend to segregate patient populations in different kind of risks: low, intermediate and high depending on standard clinical variables such as age, systolic blood pressure (SBP), smoking and diabetes. Normally one of the most used factors for risk stratification is low density lipoprotein (LDL) as well as Framingham risk score (FRS). On the other hand, using a powerful discriminator as Coronary artery calcium (CAC) it’s possible to separate patients included in a database better than using LDL. The aim of this work was to study the association between clustering of cardiovascular risk factors and the earlier discriminators of cardiovascular disease. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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