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Estimating the population impact of screening strategies for identifying and treating people at high risk of cardiovascular disease
— modelling study | | Author(s) | Parinya Chamnan, Rebecca K Simmons, Kay-Tee Khaw |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 340, no 7754, 8 May 2010 |
| Pages | p 1016 |
| Source | www.bmj.com doi: 10.1136/bmj.c1693 |
| Keywords | Cardiovascular diseases ; At risk ; Screening ; Therapeutics ; Longitudinal surveys ; Norfolk. |
| Annotation | Would a strategy using routine data for risk stratification before inviting those of high risk for a cardiovascular risk assessment be as effective as preventing new cardiovascular events such as the UK government's recommended mass screening strategy? Despite uncertainty concerning costs and benefits of mass screening, the Department of Health (DH) recommends that all adults aged 40-74 who have never been identified through self assessment or record based screening, should be invited for cardiovascular risk assessment, which requires people to attend their surgery for biochemical testing. This article is a summary of a paper on bmj.com. The modelling study is based on data from 16970 adults from the EPIC Norfolk cohort, with assessment of cardiovascular events over 10 years of follow-up. Compared with the government strategy, a stepwise screening approach using a risk score based on routine data could prevent a similar number of new cardiovascular events annually in the UK, but requiring only 60% of the population to be invited to attend a vascular risk assessment. The method has potential cost savings. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100511203 A |
| Classmark | CQ: CA3: 3V: LL: 3J: 8N * |
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