American College of Cardiology

TAYLOR ET AL., 34th BETHESDA CONFERENCE: Can Atherosclerosis Imaging Techniques Improve the Detection of Patients at Risk for Ischemic Heart Disease?
J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;41:11:1855-917

BETHESDA CONFERENCE REPORT
34th Bethesda Conference: Can Atherosclerosis Imaging Techniques Improve the Detection of Patients at Risk for Ischemic Heart Disease?¹

Richard C. Pasternak, MD, FACC, Co-Chair, Jonathan Abrams, MD, FACC, Co-Chair, Philip Greenland, MD, FACC, Lynn A. Smaha, MD, PHD, FACC, Peter W. F. Wilson, MD, Nancy Houston-Miller, RN, BSN


Figure 4.

Figure 4. Comparison of the magnitude of relative risk of future cardiovascular events associated with abnormal values of different risk factors or combination of risk factors. The data are derived from initially healthy women in the Nurses’ Health Study. In each case, relative risk is shown (black box) for individuals in the top versus the bottom quartile for each factor, 95% confidence intervals are shown by the horizontal lines. (Ridker [30]).