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Using the Framingham model to predict heart disease in the United Kingdom: retrospective study

S Ramachandran et al. BMJ. 2000.

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Number of coronary heart disease events observed in the Whickham study compared with number of events predicted by Framingham model in participants with predicted risk below or above 1.5%/year. In the highest risk groups the small number of participants prevents calculation of confidence intervals

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