Electrocardiography score based on the Minnesota code classification system predicts cardiovascular mortality in an asymptomatic low-risk population

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Wook-Dong Kim and eight co-authors wrote this 2023 study on whether a heart tracing score can foresee cardiovascular death in healthy-feeling people. Single odd findings on an electrocardiogram predict little on their own. The team instead scored many findings together, using a standard coding system, in more than eight thousand Korean adults with no heart disease or symptoms, followed for eighteen years.

Nine kinds of tracing abnormality each raised the risk of cardiovascular death. Bundled into a score, they predicted death modestly well, best in the early years. Adding the score to standard risk factors improved prediction beyond the usual American risk calculator. The authors argue that a cheap, painless tracing, read as a pattern rather than a single flag, can sharpen risk sorting in low-risk crowds. That could target prevention where it quietly matters most.

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Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10836241