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Bariatric Surgery and Long-term Cardiovascular Events

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Prediction of coronary heart disease risk by Framingham and SCORE risk assessments varies by socioeconomic position: results from a study in British men

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Factors Related to Weight Loss up to 4 Years after Bariatric Surgery

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Risk prediction of incident coronary heart disease in the Netherlands: re-estimation and improvement of the SCORE risk function

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Cardiovascular risk assessment - From individual risk prediction to estimation of global risk and change in risk in the population

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Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008

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The Predicted Effects of Chronic Obesity in Middle Age on Medicare Costs and Mortality

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Bariatric surgery: a cost-effective intervention for morbid obesity; functional and nutritional outcomes

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Perception of cardiovascular risk and comparison with actual cardiovascular risk

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Cardiovascular Risk After Bariatric Surgery for Obesity

(2008) John A. Batsis et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

Primary care patients?? recognition of their own risk for cardiovascular disease: implications for risk communication in practice

(2008) Trudy van der Weijden et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CARDIOLOGY