Simplicity still rules for heart disease forecast
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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