Distribution of Traditional and Novel Risk Factors and Their Relation to Subsequent Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes (from the PROVE IT-TIMI 22 Trial)
February 25th, 2010 Posted by: admin
Publication year: 2010
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology, Volume 105, Issue 5, 1 March 2010, Pages 619-623
Subroto, Acharjee , Jie, Qin , Sabina A., Murphy , Carolyn, McCabe , Christopher P., Cannon
Current guidelines recommend risk stratification largely based on traditional risk factors such as those in the Framingham Risk Score. We studied the distribution of 12 traditional and non-traditional risk markers (age ≥65 years, male gender, family history of premature coronary heart disease, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≥70 mg/dl, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol <40 mg/dl in men and 130 mm Hg, diabetes mellitus, smoking, C-reactive protein ≥2 mg/L, triglycerides >150 mg/dl, prediabetes defined as a fasting glucose level 100 to 125 mg/dl or hemoglobin A1c >6, and obesity defined as body mass index ≥30 kg/m2) in…
