University of Nottingham researchers have developed a new lifetime 'score', to detect heart disease in youngsters. This score is used by general practitioners (GP) to identify heart disease risk level in youngsters.
The researchers studied data of over two and half million people and then developed, validated and evaluated the new lifetime 'score' which takes account, among many other factors, social deprivation and ethnicity.
This new score has the potential to identify younger people who have a high risk over the course of their lifetime, who are currently not picked up by the more conventional '10 year' risk scores. By identifying people at a younger age, GPs will have more chance of intervening before heart disease sets in, to help reduce their lifetime risk through treatments and lifestyle advice," said Julia Hippisley-Cox, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and General Practice in the School of Community Health.
The new lifetime score also takes account of other factors including: smoking status, systolic blood pressure, cholesterol levels, body mass index, family history of heart disease, and age and sex.
The new lifetime 'score' shows that different people could be at high risk compared with the 10-year risk score. The new 'score' will identify people for possible intervention at a much younger age.
It was developed using data from over 500 GP practices, feeding into the QRESEARCH database.
Using the QRESEARCH database Professor Hippisley-Cox, with others, has been able to produce a model based on a large, ethnically diverse population.
Source:MediIndia
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