Coronary heart disease and mortality in Scottish Heart Health Study

Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe,  Comparison of the prediction by 27 different factors of coronary heart disease and death in men and women of the Scottish heart health study: cohort study, British Medical Journal, 1997.

 

Among Scottish men and women studied for 27 risk factors for coronary heart disease and followed up for eight years classical risk factors scored strongly in predicting coronary risk but the performance of new ones was more variable.