Thesis
The impact of treatment and time on cardiovascular risk scores
- Abstract:
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Cardiovascular risk scores predict an individual’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Many were developed and validated in study cohorts on risk-factor lowering treatment – a cause of inaccuracy. In addition, risk scores are criticised as being biased towards the elderly due to the prominence of age as a risk predictor. Although present guidelines advocate the use of short-term (5-10 year) absolute risk scores, other approaches to redress this perceived imbalance such as lifetime r...
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+ Mant, D
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Role:
Supervisor
+ Glasziou, P
Division:
MSD
Department:
Nuffield Department of Population Health
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
+ University of Malaya and the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia
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Liew, S
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2012
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:6757
- Deposit date:
- 2013-03-13
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- Copyright holder:
- Liew, S
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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