Assessment of diet quality improves the classification ability of cardiovascular risk score in predicting future events: The 10-year follow-up of the ATTICA study (2002-2012)

Conclusion
The inclusion of dietary evaluation increased the accuracy of HellenicSCORE risk estimation and, thus, its incorporation into CVD risk prediction scores might help clinicians and public health professionals to better allocate future CVD candidates.

Source: European Journal of Preventive Cardiology - October 13, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Georgousopoulou, E. N., Panagiotakos, D. B., Pitsavos, C., Stefanadis, C., for the ATTICA study group Tags: Original scientific paper Source Type: research