Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in a Middle Eastern Country: Performance of the Globorisk and Score Functions in Four Population-Based Cohort Studies of Iran.
Noushin FahimfarAkbar FotouhiMohammad Ali MansourniaFatemeh MalekzadehNizal SarrafzadeganFereidoun AziziMarjan MansourianSadaf G SepanlouMohammad Hassan EmamianFarzad HadaeghHamidreza RoohafzaHassan HashemiHossein PoustchiAkram PorshamsTahereh SamavatMaryam SharafkhahMohammad TalaeiDavid Van KlaverenEwout Willem SteyerbergDavood KhaliliPublished in: International journal of health policy and management (2020)
Original Globorisk and SCORE models overestimate the CVD risk in Iranian populations resulting in a high number of people who need intervention. Recalibration could adopt these models to precisely predict CVD mortality. Globorisk showed better performance clinically, only among high-risk women.