Traditional risk assessment tools do not accurately predict coronary heart disease
Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 10:28
in Health & Medicine
The Framingham and National Cholesterol Education Program tools, NCEP, do not accurately predict coronary heart disease, according to a study performed at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT...
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