Washington, June 19: Doctors who ignore the education and income levels of patients when assessing their risk for heart disease may be missing an important factor that might result in inadequate treatment, according to latest research.
Most doctors use the Framingham Risk Scoring (FRS) model to evaluate the risk of heart disease. The study, conducted by the University of Rochester Medical Centre, found that the FRS method did not accurately predict whether a person of low income and/or less than a high school education would develop heart disease or die in the next ten years.
