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. 2009 Oct;52(10):2001-14.
doi: 10.1007/s00125-009-1454-0. Epub 2009 Jul 24.

Cardiovascular risk assessment scores for people with diabetes: a systematic review

P Chamnan  1 , R K Simmons, S J Sharp, S J Griffin, N J Wareham
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Cardiovascular risk assessment scores for people with diabetes: a systematic review

P Chamnan et al. Diabetologia. 2009 Oct.

Abstract

People with type 2 diabetes have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Multivariate cardiovascular risk scores have been used in many countries to identify individuals who are at high risk of CVD. These risk scores include those originally developed in individuals with diabetes and those developed in a general population. This article reviews the published evidence for the performance of CVD risk scores in diabetic patients by: (1) examining the overall rationale for using risk scores; (2) systematically reviewing the literature on available scores; and (3) exploring methodological issues surrounding the development, validation and comparison of risk scores. The predictive performance of cardiovascular risk scores varies substantially between different populations. There is little evidence to suggest that risk scores developed in individuals with diabetes estimate cardiovascular risk more accurately than those developed in the general population. The inconsistency in the methods used in evaluation studies makes it difficult to compare and summarise the predictive ability of risk scores. Overall, CVD risk scores rank individuals reasonably accurately and are therefore useful in the management of diabetes with regard to targeting therapy to patients at highest risk. However, due to the uncertainty in estimation of true risk, care is needed when using scores to communicate absolute CVD risk to individuals.

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