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| Created By M Romanens, MD and Franz Ackermann, MD, Olten | |||||||
| Test why ? | Risk Charts have low sensitivity | ||||||
| Risk Charts have low specificity (pdf) | |||||||
| Atherosclerosis imaging will reduce cost of atherosclerosis management, simply by avoiding unncesseray and costly therapies | |||||||
| Prevention ? | People want to prevent disease, not treat it. However, only 2% of health care expenditures are payed for prevention | ||||||
| Test what ? | Risk for heart and brain attack | ||||||
| Test who ? | Determine pretest probability using a risk chart | ||||||
| If pretest probability is < 10% in 10 years, reassure the patient | |||||||
| If pretest probability is 10-40% im 10 years, use atherosclerosis imaging as a guidance for the appropriate aggressiveness of medical interventions | |||||||
| If pretest probability is > 40% in 10 years, treat aggressively | |||||||
