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Identifying Adults at Increased Risk of Coronary Disease
- Source :
- JAMA. 274:801
- Publication Year :
- 1995
- Publisher :
- American Medical Association (AMA), 1995.
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Abstract
- Objective. —To assess the accuracy of lipid screening strategies to identify individuals at increased risk of coronary heart disease mortality. Patients. —The 15% random sample of adults recruited into the Lipid Research Clinic Prevalence and Follow-up Studies, which included 3678 men and women aged 35 to 74 years. Total plasma cholesterol levels, lipoprotein fractions, and other coronary risk factors at study entry were compared with subsequent coronary heart disease mortality (mean follow-up, 12.2 years). Main Outcome Measures. —The areas under receiver operating characteristic curves for blood lipids, lipid ratios, the screening guidelines proposed by the National Cholesterol Education Program, those of the Canadian Consensus Conference on Cholesterol, and a coronary risk model that used Framingham data. Main Results. —The current National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines (area under the curve, 0.74) were significantly ( P =.03) more accurate than the old National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines (area, 0.72). The ratio of total plasma cholesterol level to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level (area, 0.72) was as accurate as current National Cholesterol Education Program guidelines. The coronary risk model (area, 0.85) was superior ( P Conclusion. —The ratio of total plasma cholesterol level to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level is as accurate as current American screening guidelines. Future guidelines should better incorporate high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and nonlipid risk factors to target high-risk individuals accurately. ( JAMA . 1995;274:801-806)
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Framingham Risk Score
Receiver operating characteristic
Cholesterol
business.industry
Area under the curve
Blood lipids
General Medicine
Surgery
chemistry.chemical_compound
chemistry
Internal medicine
medicine
lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins)
Risk factor
business
National Cholesterol Education Program
Lipoprotein
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00987484
- Volume :
- 274
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JAMA
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9e4d9353afef1345bfb5ca6350547609