New Delhi, Nov 24
The cardiac screening tools used currently may be missing out 45 per cent of people at actual risk of heart attacks, according to a new study.
The study, led by Mount Sinai researchers in the US, exposed a major flaw in patient care and showed that relying on risk scores and symptoms alone may not help prevent the risk of a heart attack.
The results, published in a brief report in the JACC: Advances, stressed the need to focus on the silently building plaque.
"Our research shows that population-based risk tools often fail to reflect the true risk for many individual patients," said corresponding author Amir Ahmadi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.