Assessing the Performance of the Framingham Stroke Risk Score in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Cohort | Zendy

Leslie A. McClure | Zendy; Dawn Kleindorfer | Zendy; Brett Kissela | Zendy; Mary Cushman | Zendy; Elsayed Z. Soliman | Zendy; George Howard | Zendy

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Assessing the Performance of the Framingham Stroke Risk Score in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Cohort

Author(s) -

Leslie A. McClure,

Dawn Kleindorfer,

Brett Kissela,

Mary Cushman,

Elsayed Z. Soliman,

George Howard

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.114.004915

Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , framingham heart study , atrial fibrillation , framingham risk score , diabetes mellitus , cohort , blood pressure , risk factor , cardiology , incidence (geometry) , demography , cohort study , physical therapy , disease , mechanical engineering , sociology , engineering , physics , optics , endocrinology

The most well-known stroke risk score is the Framingham Stroke Risk Score (FSRS), which was developed during the higher stroke risk period of the 1990s and has not been validated for blacks. We assessed the performance of the FSRS among participants in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study to determine whether it is useful in both blacks and whites.

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