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2006: Ajani Umed A; Ford Earl S; McGuire Lisa C
Distribution of lifestyle and emerging risk factors by 10-year risk for coronary heart disease.
European journal of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation : official journal of the European Society of Cardiology, Working Groups on Epidemiology & Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Physiology 2006;13(5):745-52.
BACKGROUND: The Framingham risk score has been used for coronary heart disease (CHD) risk assessment. Recently, additional risk factors not included in the Framingham algorithm have received much attention and may help improve risk assessment. We examined the distributions of lifestyle and emerging risk factors by 10-year risk of CHD. METHODS: We calculated 10-year CHD risk (<10%, 10-20%, and >20%) for 8355 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999-2002 using the Framingham risk score as modified by the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines. We examined the prevalence of lifestyle risk factors [body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference] and various emerging risk factors [C-reactive protein (CRP), white blood cell count, fibrinogen, homocysteine, glycosylated hemoglobin, and albuminuria] as well as prevalence of high CHD risk by levels of these risk factors. RESULTS: All examined CHD risk factors were significantly associated with increasing 10-year CHD risk among men and women. Odds of being in the highest CHD risk group were greater at higher levels of examined risk factors. Means for most risk factors were slightly higher for women than the means for men. Sizeable proportions of participants with lower 10-year CHD risk had high levels of lifestyle and emerging risk factors: 60.8% were overweight, 33.8% had high CRP concentrations, 24.1% had serum fibrinogen >400 mg/dl and 6% had an albumin/creatinine ratio >/=30. CONCLUSIONS: Lifestyle and emerging risk factors, in addition to those included in the Framingham risk score, may be important in CHD risk assessment.

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