Multiple Biomarker Panels for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment  

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Lemos, James A. de ; Lloyd-Jones, Donald M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 20 (May 2008), page 2172.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.03 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Guidelines for the assessment of cardiovascular risk remain focused squarely on established risk factors.1 Although it is known that tools based on these risk factors, such as the Framingham Risk Score, have a number of limitations when applied in clinical practice — performing reasonably well for groups but not necessarily for individuals and underestimating long-term risk among younger persons2 — it has proved surprisingly difficult to improve on established risk factors for the prediction of cardiovascular disease. Of the many strategies that have been proposed to improve risk stratification, the measurement of plasma biomarkers is particularly attractive as compared with . . .

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