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Income, Education Main Risk of Heart Disease Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Medicine   
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Doctors who ignore the socioeconomic status of patients when evaluating their risk for heart disease are missing a crucial element that might result in inadequate treatment. The current model that most doctors use to assess risk, known as Framingham Risk Scoring (FRS), does not accurately predict whether a person of low income and/or less than a high school education will develop heart disease or die in the next 10 years, the study found.The FRS tool is limited to measuring data. (source: urmc.rochester.edu)
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