Objective
Objectives
The goal of the SCORE project is to ensure that coronary heart disease risk assessment in clinical practice in Europe accords with the available data on coronary risk in European countries. This entails the following objectives:
* assembling a pool of databases from major European studies of coronary risk;
* developing a coronary risk assessment system based on these databases;
* if necessary, producing specific systems for different European regions;
* integrating these results into the revised European Guidelines on Coronary Prevention.
Brief Description
The present European recommendations on coronary risk management in clinical practice rely on a risk assessment system based on US data. This project will make use of major European databases of cardiac risk factors and disease incidence. These represent a wealth of barely-exploited data which could serve as a basis for the accurate estimation of risk in European populations. The SCORE project will assemble large-scale European databases, and use these to construct a simple, easily used risk assessment system. Because levels of coronary risk differ throughout Europe, the system will be calibrated against a spectrum of European populations.
The project will also use cross-sectional data to estimate the health service impact of the systematic use of the risk assessment system in clinical practice, within the framework of the European Guidelines. This analysis will facilitate health service planning in relation to coronary prevention in clinical practice.
The project will take place over three years, and will make use of a range of recently-developed statistical techniques to ensure optimum risk assessment. The results will be disseminated as a set of simple, easy-to-use physician guidelines. They will also be disseminated on the World Wide Web in a format that can be browsed using freely-available free computer software.
Keywords
Coronary Heart Disease, Risk Factors, Risk Assessment, Prospective Studies, Incidence, Cholesterol, Smoking, Blood Pressure, World Wide Web.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- social sciences sociology governance crisis management
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet world wide web
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Coordinator
2 Dublin
Ireland
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