Will screening individuals at high risk of cardiovascular events deliver large benefits? Yes.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Systematic versus opportunistic risk assessment for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
   Pooled it
2. A multifaceted quality improvement intervention for CVD risk management in Australian primary healthcare: a protocol for a process evaluation.Implementation science : IS · 2014
   Trial
3. Population impact of a high cardiovascular risk management program delivered by village doctors in rural China: design and rationale of a large, cluster-randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2014
   Trial
4. Future burden of myocardial infarction in Australia: impact on health outcomes between 2019 and 2038.European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes · 2024
   Article
5. WSO and WHF joint position statement on population-wide prevention strategies.Lancet (London, England) · 2020
   Article
6. What Is the Best Mix of Population-Wide and High-Risk Targeted Strategies of Primary Stroke and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention?Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020
   Review
7. The NHS Health Check in England: an evaluation of the first 4 years.BMJ open · 2016
   Observational
8. Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease through population-wide motivational strategies: insights from using smartphones in stroke prevention.BMJ global health · 2016
   Article
9. The use of epidemiological measures to estimate the impact of primary prevention interventions on CHD, stroke and cancer outcomes: experiences from Herefordshire, UK.Journal of epidemiology and global health · 2012
   Article
10. Estimating the population impact of screening strategies for identifying and treating people at high risk of cardiovascular disease: modelling study.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2010
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Corrections and comments

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  WSO and WHF joint position statement on population-wide prevention strategies.2020

Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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