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Editorial
. 2019 Feb;12(2):e008626.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.008626.

Clinical Risk Scores to Minimize Low Yield Coronary Artery Disease Testing

Ahmad Masri  1 , Venkatesh L Murthy  2
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Editorial

Clinical Risk Scores to Minimize Low Yield Coronary Artery Disease Testing

Ahmad Masri et al. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; blood pressure; caregivers; chest pain; prevalence; smoking.

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Figure 1.
A plot of the negative predictive value as compared to the fraction of patients not referred for CCTA based on various thresholds of HR-CAD50 and HR-CAD70. CCTA: Coronary computed tomography angiography; HR-CAD50: High-risk coronary artery disease 50% model; HR-CAD70: High-risk coronary artery disease 70% model (refer to text for definitions).
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Comment on

  • Predictive Model for High-Risk Coronary Artery Disease.
    Jang JJ, Bhapkar M, Coles A, Vemulapalli S, Fordyce CB, Lee KL, Udelson JE, Hoffmann U, Tardif JC, Jones WS, Mark DB, Sorrell VL, Espinoza A, Douglas PS, Patel MR; PROMISE Investigators. Jang JJ, et al. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Feb;12(2):e007940. doi: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.118.007940. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019. PMID: 30712364 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.

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