How to calculate vascular age with the SCORE project scales: a new method of cardiovascular risk evaluation

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Authors

José I. Cuende · Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Palencia

Abstract

Vascular age is a new concept derived from Framingham risk tables that can be calculated with other risk scales, like SCORE. Agreement of vascular age calculated from the SCORE equations for high- and low-risk countries was extremely high, in contrast to the poor agreement in absolute risk.

Topics & Keywords

Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Partnerships for the goals

Publication Details

Published in: European Heart Journal

Volume 31, Issue 19, pp. 2351-2358

DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehq205

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