Authors
Cooney, Marie ThereseVartiainen, Erkki
Laatikainen, Tiina
De Bacquer, Dirk
McGorrian, Catherine
Dudina, Alexandra
Graham, Ian
Affiliation
Department of Cardiology, Adelaide Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.Issue Date
2012-06MeSH
AdultAge Distribution
Age Factors
Aged
Cardiovascular Diseases
Female
Humans
Incidence
Ireland
Life Style
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Statistical
Prognosis
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Survival Rate
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Cardiovascular risk age: concepts and practicalities. 2012, 98 (12):941-6 HeartJournal
Heart (British Cardiac Society)DOI
10.1136/heartjnl-2011-301478PubMed ID
22626902Abstract
A young person with many risk factors may have the same level of risk as an older person with no risk factors. Thus a high-risk 40-year-old may have a risk age of 60 years or more. The aim of the study was to derive a generic equation for risk age, construct risk age charts, and explore the hypothesis that risk age is similar regardless of the cardiovascular disease (CVD) end point used.Item Type
ArticleLanguage
enISSN
1468-201Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1136/heartjnl-2011-301478