Validating the Framingham Hypertension Risk Score: A 4‐year follow‐up from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of the Adult Health (ELSA‐Brasil)
Abstract
The Framingham Heart Study published an equation that permits to estimate the 4-year incidence of hypertension among adults. In Brazil, only the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) of 15 105 men and women aged 35-74 years enrolled in 2008-2010 has data that can validate the Framingham Risk Score for Hypertension and create a new equation according to the Brazilian population. We examined the predictive performance of the...
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Title
Validating the Framingham Hypertension Risk Score: A 4‐year follow‐up from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of the Adult Health (ELSA‐Brasil)
Published Date
Apr 18, 2020
Volume
22
Issue
5
Pages
850 - 856
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