Cynthia M Boyd, Bruce Leff, Jennifer L Wolff, Qilu Yu, Jing Zhou, Cynthia Rand, Carlos O Weiss
OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence of coexisting conditions that affect clinical decision-making in adults with coronary heart disease (CHD). DESIGN: Cross-sectional. SETTING: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999 to 2004. PARTICIPANTS: Eight thousand six hundred fifty-four people aged 45 and older; 1,259 with CHD. MEASUREMENTS: Coexisting conditions relevant to clinical decision-making and implementing therapy for CHD across three domains: chronic diseases, self-reported and laboratory-based clinical measures, and health status factors of self-reported and observed function...
May 2011: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society