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Lipid screening to prevent coronary artery disease: a quantitative evaluation of evolving guidelines
Steven A. Grover, Marc Dorais, Gilles Paradis, J. George Fodor, Jiri J. Frohlich, Ruth McPherson, Louis Coupal and Hanna Zowall
CMAJ November 14, 2000 163 (10) 1263-1269;
Steven A. Grover
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
Marc Dorais
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
Gilles Paradis
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
J. George Fodor
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
Jiri J. Frohlich
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
Ruth McPherson
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
Louis Coupal
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
Hanna Zowall
From *the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, and the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University; †the Division of Preventive Medicine, McGill University Health Centre and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Que.; ‡the Prevention and Rehabilitation Centre and ¶the Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and §the Healthy Heart Program, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC.
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Fig. 1: Receiver operating characteristic curves comparing the discriminating ability of the 1998 lipid guidelines, the Canadian Consensus Conference on Cholesterol (CCCC) Guidelines and the original National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) I and the later revised NCEP II guidelines.
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Lipid screening to prevent coronary artery disease: a quantitative evaluation of evolving guidelines
Steven A. Grover, Marc Dorais, Gilles Paradis, J. George Fodor, Jiri J. Frohlich, Ruth McPherson, Louis Coupal, Hanna Zowall
CMAJ Nov 2000, 163 (10) 1263-1269;
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