Refit coronary heart disease risk functions

Refit coronary heart disease risk functions improve absolute coronary heart disease risk prediction in humans.

“For both genders, refitting these functions substantially improved absolute risk prediction, with similar discrimination to the FRS.”

Humanscompared with the Framingham risk score8-year follow-upn = 2,193

Framingham risk score and alternatives for prediction of coronary heart disease in older adults

PloS one·28 Mar 2012