A study published in the British Medical Journal estimated there were 3.2 million adults under the age of 75 at high risk of developing heart disease -- significantly less than the previous established estimate of 4.7 million.
The lower figure is based on a new cardiovascular risk score for the UK, called QRISK, rather than the traditional Framingham score, which was developed in the United States.
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