New heart disease risk score outperforms existing test

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - 10:07 in Health & Medicine

An independent external validation of QRISK -- a new score for predicting a person's risk of heart disease - has shown that it performs better than the existing test and should be recommended for use in the United Kingdom by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

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