The new guidelines offer multiple new features but have a tendency to underappreciate the risk for disease in young adults. To improve performance in young adults, statistical adjustments may be necessary.

The magnitude of hospital admissions relating to premature CHD is high. In this population, the presence of borderline or mild hypercholesterolemia has significant effects on the development of premature CHD. These observations have significant implications in the development of guidelines for primary prevention of premature CHD.

These results suggest that dobutamine-induced wall motion abnormalities, which are persistent in new heart transplant recipients, are predictive of the development of angiographic CAD, MI or death.

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