Validity of a long-term cardiovascular disease risk prediction equation for low-incidence populations: The CAMUNI–MATISS Cohorts Collaboration Study

What is it about?

Recent guidelines on cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention recommend the use of long-term risk model to better communicate CVD risk in young subjects and women. In this paper, we assessed the validity of the CAMUNI 20-year risk score, developed in Northern Italy and published previously, when applied to a population with different risk factors distribution and event incidence.

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Why is it important?

We confirmed the validity of our long-term CVD risk model, which is now suitable to estimate risk in low-incidence European populations. In addition, we provided first evidences on guidelines recommendations by showing the clinical utility of long-term risk scores in men and women at different levels of predicted 10-year CVD risk.