New table for assessing coronary risk has high specificity and sensitivity

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New table for assessing coronary risk has high specificity and sensitivity

Doctors need simple, accurate methods to estimate absolute coronary risk to guide lipid screening and treatment decisionsfor primary prevention of coronary heart disease. On p 671 Walliset al present a revised Sheffield table to detect coronary risksof $>=$ 15% and $>=$ 30% over 10 years and report its accuracy in a randomsample of the population without atherosclerotic disease. Thetable performed well, with 97% sensitivity for coronary risk of $>=$ 15% over 10 years, and decisions that coronary risk was <15%were 99.5%correct.

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