New risk score for cardiovascular disease with improved performancehttps
Paper describes QR4, a new CVD risk score developed and evaluated in 16.9 million people that is claimed to have better performance than other commonly used CVD risk scores. It includes 9 new risk factors associated with increased risk of developing CVD over the next 10 years.
Source:
Nature Medicine
SPS commentary:
The additional predictors are learning disability, Down’s syndrome, COPD, lung cancer, oral cancer, blood cancer and brain cancer (each in men and women), and pre-eclampsia and postnatal depression (in women only).