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The evolution and refinement of traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Cardiology in review - 1 Jan 2000
deGoma Emil M, Knowles Joshua W, Angeli Fabio, Budoff Matthew J, Rader Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as systemic hypertension and hypercholesterolemia, all described more than half a century ago, are relatively few in number. Efforts to expand the epidemiologic canon have met with limited success because of the high hurdle of causality. Fortunately, another solution to current deficiencies in risk assessment-in particular, the underestimation of risk both...
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