Developing a synthetic national population to investigate the impact of different cardiovascular disease risk management strategies: A derivation and validation study.

BACKGROUND:Many national cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor management guidelines now recommend that drug treatment decisions should be informed primarily by patients' multi-variable predicted risk of CVD, rather than on the basis of single risk factor thresholds. To investigate the poten...

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Main Authors: Josh Knight, Susan Wells, Roger Marshall, Daniel Exeter, Rod Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5383032?pdf=render