Six questions flag risk for cardiovascular hospitalization

I had none of these.
http://www.familypracticenews.com/news/cardiovascular-disease/single-article/six-questions-flag-risk-for-cardiovascular-hospitalization/d002ed34fc7a246e67c7898b0386de7e.html

The answers to six questions can identify 18% of the stroke-free general population as having a greater than 40% chance of hospitalization or an emergency department visit for cardiovascular disease within the next 5 years, according to a large national study.

New evidence from the REGARDS (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) study indicates that the predictive power of the six questions compares to that of traditional cardiovascular risk factors, Virginia J. Howard, Ph.D., said at the International Stroke Conference sponsored by the American Heart Association.

These six questions – called the Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-Free Status, or QVSFS – can easily be asked by office staff during a routine patient evaluation. Although the questions relate to strokelike symptoms, they also were predictive of other cardiovascular events.

REGARDS is a prospective, population-based, longitudinal study of 30,239 African Americans and whites over age 45. The national study oversampled African Americans, who made up 40% of the study population. 

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