Reclassification by applying the Framingham equation 30 years to subjects with intermediate cardiovascular risk. MARK study

Abstract Background and objective The estimation of cardiovascular risk (CVR) with scores at 30 years old has a special interest in reclassifying in a suitable way Patients and methods Cross-sectional study of 966 subjects included in the MARK study. The CVR was calculated with the two versions of the FS30 (based on lipids and body mass index) for “hard” cardiovascular events in subjects with intermediate CVR. Results The 59% and 61% of the subjects with intermediate CVR would be classified as if they had high CVR to undergo a hard event if we used the FS30 in both versions. 70% of men and 35% of women would be classified as high CVR ( p Conclusions In subjects with intermediate CVR the FS30 reclassifies more than the half as high RCV, 2 out of 3 men and 1 out of 3 women.