Effect of blood pressure and total cholesterol measurement on risk prediction using the Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE)

Table 3 Associations between age, sex and the mean differences in Systematic COronary Risk Evaluation between the in-office cardio-preventive screening program and clinical examination program^a

	Linear regression	Quantile regression
		q10	q25	q50	q75	q90
	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]	b [95% CI]
Model 1: Difference between SCORE^SP and SCORE^EP/BP-first
Age	−0.012 [−0.048, 0.025]	−0.013 [− 0.043, 0.016]	−0.009 [− 0.026, 0.008]	−0.013 [− 0.029, 0.003]	−0.021 [− 0.033, − 0.009]	−0.011 [− 0.020, − 0.002]
Sex	0.025 [− 0.388, 0.438]	0.045 [− 0.330, 0.420]	0.084 [− 0.127, 0.295]	0.111 [− 0.094, 0.317]	0.204 [0.051, 0.356]	0.153 [0.039, 0.268]
Model 2: Difference between SCORE^SP and SCORE^EP/BP-mean
Age	− 0.003 [− 0.041, 0.035]	−0.003 [− 0.014, 0.008]	−0.004 [− 0.024, 0.015]	−0.014 [− 0.262, − 0.002]	−0.017 [− 0.028, − 0.006]	−0.022 [− 0.030, − 0.129]
Sex	0.075 [− 0.349, 0.499]	0.046 [0.103, 0.194]	0.132 [− 0.121, 0.385]	0.176 [0.020, 0.332]	0.202 [0.059, 0.344]	0.247 [0.135, 0.359]

Bold coefficients indicate significant effects
q quantile, b coefficient, CI confidence interval
^aAnalyses were adjusted for setting of recruitment, duration between cardio-preventive screening and clinical examination program, and the SCORE value at the in-office screening program. SCORE^SP was based on total cholesterol and the single reading of systolic blood pressure at the in-office screening program. SCORE^EP/BP-first (SCORE^EP/BP-mean) were based on total cholesterol and the first reading (the mean of the second and third reading) of systolic blood pressure at clinical examination program