Use of biomarkers of metals to improve prediction performance of cardiovascular disease mortality

• Main Authors: Samuel D. Fansler (Author), Kelly M. Bakulski (Author), Sung Kyun Park (Author), Erika Walker (Author), Xin Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Whether including additional environmental risk factors improves cardiovascular disease (CVD) prediction is unclear. We attempted to improve CVD mortality prediction performance beyond traditional CVD risk factors by additionally using metals measured in the urine and blood and w...