Self-Rated Cardiovascular Risk and 15-Year Cardiovascular Mortality
Open Access
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 6 (4), 302-306
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.859
Abstract
PURPOSE Many individuals perceive their cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk to be lower than established clinical tools would estimate, yet little is known about the long-term consequences of holding such optimistic beliefs. We evaluated whether lower self-ratings of CVD risk are associated with lower rates of CVD death after addressing potential confounding by an extensive set of social and biologic CVD risk factors.Keywords
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