Including Socioeconomic Status in Coronary Heart Disease Risk Estimation
- 1 September 2010
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 8 (5) , 447-453
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1167
Abstract
PURPOSE Socioeconomic status (SES) predicts coronary heart disease independently of the Framingham risk-scoring factors included in cholesterol treatment guidelines, possibly resulting in undertreatment of lower SES persons. We examined whether hybrid SES measures (based on area measures of income and individual education) address this bias and derived an approach to incorporating SES information into treatment guidelines.Keywords
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