New risk score tool more accurately predicts patients' risk for cardiac disease and death, study finds
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
By combining patients' Framingham Risk Score with new Intermountain Risk Score, researchers found that they were 30 percent more likely to correctly determine a woman's risk, and 57 percent more likely to determine a man's risk for a cardiovascular problem or death within 30 days of an angiography.