PDAY risk score predicts advanced coronary artery atherosclerosis in middle-aged persons as well as youth

CA McMahan, HC McGill, SS Gidding, GT Malcom… - Atherosclerosis, 2007 - Elsevier
A risk score formula to estimate the probability of advanced atherosclerosis using coronary
heart disease (CHD) risk factors was developed for persons 15–34 years of age by the
Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth (PDAY) study. We applied the
PDAY risk score to autopsied individuals from the Community Pathology Study (CPS), a
different population that included middle-aged as well as young subjects. The PDAY risk
score was associated with extent of raised lesions in the coronary arteries of CPS cases 15 …