title: [Cardiovascular risk as assessed by traditional risk factors].
abstract: Although traditional cardiovascular risk factors play a proven aetiologic role in atherosclerosis-related cardiovascular disease, they fail to predict the occurrence of future clinical events, and, taken separately, they provide useful therapeutic target rather than diagnostic tools. Apart from the situation of severe monorisk, more frequent is the presentation of one individual with numerous moderate risk factors, the resulting global risk of whom being estimated by risk scores, such as the Framingham risk score or its derivatives. These models suffer various limitations, including the lack of applicability depending on geographic zones, and the lack of discrimination in the intermediate risk category, as compared to a better predictive value in the low risk and high risk categories. This lack is partially overcome by models that include complementary risk factors, requiring the need for other tools of reclassification, including the detection of subclinical atherosclerosis.
authors: AP-HP, hôpital européen Georges-Pompidou, centre de médecine préventive cardiovasculaire. gilles.chironi@egp.aphp.fr
authors: Gilles
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authors: Chironi
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D003935:Diagnostic Techniques, Cardiovascular / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors