New approaches for improving cardiovascular risk assessment
Introduction and Objectives: Clinical guidelines recommend the use of cardiovascular risk assessment tools (risk scores) to predict the risk of events such as cardiovascular death, since these scores can aid clinical decision-making and thereby reduce the social and economic costs of cardiovascular...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016-01-01
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Series: | Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia |
Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0870255115003388 |