1. Prediction of Mortality Risk in the Elderly
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Stork, Stefan, Feelders, Richard A., Beld, Annewieke W. van den, Steyerberg, Ewout W., Savelkoul, Huub F.J., Lamberts, Steven W.J., Grobbee, Diederick E., and Bots, Michiel L.
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Aged -- Health aspects ,Atherosclerosis -- Risk factors ,Atherosclerosis -- Diagnosis ,Atherosclerosis -- Prognosis ,Health ,Health care industry - Abstract
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.10.062 Byline: Stefan Stork (a)(b), Richard A. Feelders (c), Annewieke W. van den Beld (c), Ewout W. Steyerberg (d), Huub F.J. Savelkoul (e), Steven W.J. Lamberts (c), Diederick E. Grobbee (a), Michiel L. Bots (a) Keywords: Mortality; Atherosclerosis; Inflammation; Prevention; Elderly Abstract: Ways to predict the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events or all-cause mortality have largely been derived from populations in which old and very old subjects were underrepresented. We set out to estimate the incremental prognostic utility of inflammation and atherosclerosis markers in the prediction of all-cause and CV mortality in elderly men. Author Affiliation: (a) Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands (b) Cardiology Department, Medizinische Poliklink, University of Wurzburg, Germany (c) Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands (d) Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (e) Department of Cell Biology and Immunology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Article History: Received 23 May 2005; Accepted 21 October 2005
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