When Is a New Prediction Marker Useful?
- 28 November 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 165 (21) , 2454-2456
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.21.2454
Abstract
Ischemic stroke is a common and often devastating condition that can cause significant disability or death. In light of the dire consequences of a completed stroke, the search for improved predictive models and new markers to identify patients at heightened risk is well justified. Such high-risk patients would be candidates for proven stroke-prevention therapies including aspirin,1 antihypertensive medications, and HMG-CoA (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A) reductase inhibitors.2This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Limitations of the Odds Ratio in Gauging the Performance of a Diagnostic, Prognostic, or Screening MarkerAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, 2004