March 4th, 2011
Legislating CVD Screening Tests in Texas
Amit Khera, MD, MSc
Imaging tests for cardiovascular risk assessment hold great promise. Both coronary artery calcium (CAC) scanning and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) testing have been shown in multiple prospective studies to predict cardiovascular outcomes and, more recently, to improve risk reclassification based upon the Framingham Risk Score. Coupled with frustrations about the performance of the Framingham Risk […]
February 28th, 2011
What is the Role of CV Screening Tests in Medicine and Legislation?
Larry Husten, PHD
Three papers in Archives of Internal Medicine scrutinize the role of cardiovascular screening tests not only in medicine but in legislation. In the first article, Nicholas Wald and Joan Morris introduce a new interactive tool that determines the detection and false-positive rates of screening tests. The authors illustrate the value of the tool with the examples […]
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