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Optimizing Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk: Selecting a Screening Test for Atherosclerosis

Why assess subclinical atherosclerosis?. CHD events often occur with no clinical history and often normal risk factors (e.g., total cholesterol is a poor predictor)Most heart attacks result from coronary lesions of less than 50% stenosis, often undetectable by traditional methods (exercise test, an

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Optimizing Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk: Selecting a Screening Test for Atherosclerosis

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