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 decisions for primary prevention of coronary heart disease. On p 671 Wallis et al present a revised Sheffield table to detect coronary risks of 15% and 30% over 10 years and report its accuracy in a random sample of the population without atherosclerotic disease. The table 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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