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From: Screening for cardiovascular disease risk factors beginning in childhood

Fig. 1

Blood pressure would be an ideal risk marker for screening if the distribution of blood pressure in individuals having a cardiovascular disease (CVD) was very different than in individuals not having a CVD (a). However, blood pressure is a relatively weak risk factor for CVD (i.e., elevated blood pressure is a poor discriminator for sorting out individuals who will have a CVD form other individuals) as there is no large difference in the distribution of blood pressure between individuals having CVD and individuals not having a CVD (b) [14, 38]. The same is true for blood lipids

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