Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tunstall-Pedoe, H
• Woodward, M
• Tavendale, R
• Brook, R A'
• McCluskey, M K

Titel

Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study

Ist Teil von

• British Medical Journal, 1997-09, Vol.315 (7110), p.722-729

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The study compared predictions of 27 different factors in men and women of coronary heart disease events, coronary deaths, and deaths from all causes. The ranking factors for the three end points were mainly similar for men and women , although hazard ratios were often higher in women. Classical risk factors ranked better for predicting coronary risk than newer ones. Yet strong prediction of coronary risk was no guarantee of significant prediction of all cause mortality. Findings include an anomalous coronary protective role for type A behaviour in women; raised plasma fibrinogen as a strong predictor of all end points; and an unexpectedly powerful protective relation of dietary potassium to all cause mortality. Concludes the findings should be treated with caution until potential interaction, confounding, and problems of measurement and causation are further explored. (Original abstract - amended)