Identifying people at high risk of cardiovascular events is the cornerstone of cardiovascular disease prevention and a major challenge for healthcare worldwide. Recently, both inflammatory and ...
For risk stratification ... index and the initial absolute CK-MB for diagnosing AMI, ACS, and serious cardiac events (SCEs) in consecutive adult patients who presented to the ED with chest ...
Learning Objectives Define the relevance of cardiac biomarkers use to diagnose ACS and heart failure. Assess the use of cardiac biomarkers in asymptomatic patient as risk stratification tools to ...
women tend to be overlooked in cardiovascular studies. Women are often underrepresented in research studies, and in some settings may be excluded. Risk stratification in women is particularly ...
1 One of the shortcomings of attempts to identify athletes with heart disease is the lack of established risk stratification protocols. Consequently, athletes are offered a ‘blanket approach’, with a ...
For cardiovascular disease (CVD) prediction in women, female-specific factors hardly improved risk stratification over traditional risk factors alone, according to a retrospective study.