Objective: To investigate the concordance between the modified Framingham score using the ankle-brachial index and the high-sensitivity C-reactive protein with the other scores. Materials and method: Cross-sectional study nested with a cohort, with elderly population, from J...
A >20% Framingham or a >5% SCORE risk were considered high risk. According to Framingham there was a 5.9% of high-risk patients, according to SCORE equations for low-risk countries an 18.7% and according to SCORE equations for high-risk countries, a 31.2%. TheKappacoefficient showed a ...