TY - JOUR T1 - The use of cardiovascular risk factor information in practice databases JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 883 LP - 884 VL - 56 IS - 532 AU - Tim Holt AU - Margaret Thorogood AU - Frances Griffiths Y1 - 2006/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/56/532/883.2.abstract N2 - Tom Marshall1 shows how routinely collected general practice data can help identify patients at risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Practice-held information could become an important resource for targeting preventive care, particularly when combined with automated software, as he suggests. However, there are a number of issues highlighted by his paper.Marshall has excluded those already on blood pressure and cholesterol lowering therapy from his modelling. Such … ER -