Guidelines version available to download
Published in 2003
Reference European Heart Journal (2003) 24, 987–1003; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(03)00114-3
Table of contents: Full Text (ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines)
- Introduction
- Subjects and methods
- Definition of end-points
- Statistical methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Total cardiovascular risk rather than
- coronary heart disease risk
- Why fatal events only?
- Changing thresholds for high risk
- Other aspects of the SCORE risk charts
- Versions for total cholesterol and cholesterol/HDL ratio
- Change in the ages for which the risk is displayed
- SCORE risk charts are for primary prevention
- Why not separate risk charts for persons with diabetes?
- Limitations
- Appendix
- References