Journal article
Development of an Australian cardiovascular disease mortality risk score using multiple imputation and recalibration from national statistics
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OBJECTIVE: To develop and recalibrate an Australian 5-year cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality risk score to produce contemporary predictions of risk.
METHODS: Data were pooled from six Australian cohort studies (n = 54,829), with baseline data collected between 1989 and 2003. Participants included were aged 40-74 years and free of CVD at baseline. Variables were harmonised across studies and missing data were imputed using multiple imputation. Cox proportional hazards models wer...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
+ National Heart Foundation of Australia
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Funding agency for:
Backholer, K
Grant:
PH 12 M6824
+ National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship
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Funding agency for:
Woodward, M
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Cardiovascular Disorders Journal website
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 17
- Pages:
- 1-9
- Publication date:
- 2017-01-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-12-23
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1471-2261
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:671090
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- Local pid:
- pubs:671090
- Source identifiers:
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671090
- Deposit date:
- 2017-01-19
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- © Backholer, et al 2017
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © Backholer, et al. 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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