Simplicity still rules for heart disease forecast

Published: November, 2006

New heart disease tests add little to the predictive power of blood pressure, cholesterol, and other traditional risk factors.

One of the $64,000 questions in cardiology today is, "What is the best way to predict who is likely to have a heart attack and who isn't?"

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