Park Gyung-Min, Kim Young-Hak
Department of Cardiology, Daejeon St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Daejeon, Korea.
Department of Cardiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
Pulse (Basel). 2015 Sep;3(2):153-7. doi: 10.1159/000438683. Epub 2015 Aug 26.
The profile and prevalence of risk factors in cardiovascular disease (CVD) are different between Western and Asian populations. In the guidelines, tailored approaches following risk stratification based on CVD risk models are recommended for the primary prevention of CVD in asymptomatic subjects. However, current risk models for predicting CVD in Asian populations are limited. A recent study of a large cohort of asymptomatic Korean individuals developed a CVD risk model to predict global cardiovascular risk that showed good performance in predicting cardiovascular events. This model may be useful for the primary prevention of CVD in East Asian individuals as well as Koreans.