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MESA heart disease risk score worked well with or without race included
November 11, 2024
DALLAS, Texas, Nov. 11 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association issued the following news release:

Research Highlights:

A version of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) heart disease risk score that did not include race predicted heart disease risk just as well as the original version that includes race.

The original MESA risk score, developed in 2015[1], combines traditional risk factors, sex and race with a coronary artery ca . . .

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