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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Main Authors: Simão Paredes, Teresa Rocha, Diana Mendes, Paulo Carvalho, Jorge Henriques, João Morais, Jorge Ferreira, Miguel Mendes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-01-01
Series:Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0870255115003388