The correlation between waist circumference and ESC cardiovascular risk score: data from the German metabolic and cardiovascular risk project (GEMCAS)

Heribert Schunkert et al.

Identification of patients with high cardiovascular risk, an immanent task of primary care physicians, is laborious, cost intensive and thus difficult to perform. Waist circumference (WC), given its association with multiple risk factors, is an easy to use tool for initial assessment of cardiovascular risk, but its predictive validity in primary care has not been assessed.zum PDF