Risk Factors of Coronary Artery Disease in Secondary Prevention--Results from the AtheroGene--Study.

Risk factors are important in cardiovascular (CV) medicine for risk stratification of patients. We aimed to compare the traditional risk factors to clinical variables for the prediction of secondary cardiovascular events.For this study, 3229 patients with known coronary artery disease (CAD) were inc...

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Main Authors: Elvin Zengin, Christoph Bickel, Renate B Schnabel, Tanja Zeller, Karl-J Lackner, Hans-J Rupprecht, Stefan Blankenberg, Dirk Westermann, Christoph Sinning for the AtheroGene–Study Investigators
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4496051?pdf=render