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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease carotid artery disease
Phenotype C0011847|diabetes
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PubMedID- 23115699 Framingham scores of all patients were calculated, and according to the coronary heart disease (chd) risk category presented in the ncep-atp iii guideline, the cases in which there were chd or chd risk equivalents (peripheral arterial diseases, aneurysm of abdominal aorta, carotid artery disease with symptoms, and diabetes) and the framingham score was higher than 20% were classified as the high cvd risk group, and the cases in which the framingham score was 20% or lower and two or more chd risk factors (smoking, hypertension, hdl-c of less than 40 mg/dl, family history of premature coronary artery disease [men who are younger than 55 years and women who are younger than 65 years], and age [45 years or older in men and 55 years or older in women]) were classified as the moderate cvd risk group, and cases with one or less chd risk factor were classified as the low cvd risk group.

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