Predicting Cardiovascular Events with Coronary Calcium Scoring  

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Weintraub, William S. ; Diamond, George A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 13 (Mar. 2008), page 1394.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The thoughtful clinician takes it to be self-evident that intensity of therapy should be proportional to risk of disease.1,2 Ever since Bigger coined the term "risk stratification" to characterize this intuitive process,3 more than 3000 articles (according to a recent PubMed literature search) have been published on the subject — at a rate that is doubling every 5 years.4 Nearly 40% of these articles focus on cardiovascular medicine, where "risk stratification" has become something of a mantra for rational, evidence-based clinical management. Predicting who will have a cardiovascular event is indeed an important clinical and societal goal. Currently, the United . . .

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