Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Diabetes Mellitus: Comparison of the General Framingham Risk Profile Versus the World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension Risk Prediction Charts in Arabs—Clinical Implications

We estimated the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and its clinical implications among 1 110 Omani patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) using 2 different CVD risk tools: the general Framingham risk profile (GFRP) and the joint World Health Organization/International Society of H...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Angiology 2013-07, Vol.64 (5), p.336-342
Hauptverfasser:	Al-Lawati, Jawad A., Barakat, Mohammed N., Al-Lawati, Najla A., Al-Maskari, Masoud Y., Elsayed, Medhat K., Mikhailidis, Dimitri P., Al-Zakwani, Ibrahim S.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged Arabs - statistics & numerical data Cardiovascular Agents - economics Cardiovascular Agents - therapeutic use Cardiovascular Diseases - diagnosis Cardiovascular Diseases - epidemiology Cardiovascular Diseases - therapy Cohort Studies Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - complications Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 - ethnology Drug Costs Female Health Status Indicators Humans Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors - economics Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors - therapeutic use Male Middle Aged Oman - epidemiology Practice Patterns, Physicians Prevalence Risk Factors
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Zusammenfassung:	We estimated the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk and its clinical implications among 1 110 Omani patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) using 2 different CVD risk tools: the general Framingham risk profile (GFRP) and the joint World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) risk prediction charts. The GFRP tool identified higher proportion of patients compared with joint WHO/ISH tool at 10-year CVD risk 10% to
ISSN:	0003-3197 1940-1574
DOI:	10.1177/0003319712458349