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Performance of the Expanded Cardiovascular Risk Prediction Score for Rheumatoid Arthritis Is Not Superior to the ACC/AHA Risk Calculator.

Bengt WahlinLena InnalaStaffan MagnussonBozena MöllerTorgny SmedbySolbritt Rantapää DahlqvistSolveig Wållberg-Jonsson
Published in: The Journal of rheumatology (2018)
ERS-RA underestimated the risk of a CV event in our cohort of patients, especially when risk estimations were based on patient or physician reports of HTN and hyperlipidemia instead of assessment of BP and blood lipids. The performance of ERS-RA was no better than that of ACC/AHA × 1.5, and neither performed well in high-inflammatory patients.
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