Table 1

Description of the search strategy used to identify publications of interest

DatabasePubMed on 7 September 2011
GeneralOnly English language
Domain
  • #1: incidence[Title/Abstract] OR prognos*[Title/Abstract] OR predict*[Title/Abstract]

  • #2: reclassi*[Title/Abstract] reclassification[Title/Abstract] OR net reclassification index[Title/Abstract] OR net reclassification improvement[Title/Abstract] OR NRI[Title/Abstract] OR ROC-curve[Title/Abstract] OR AUC[Title/Abstract] OR area under the curve[Title/Abstract] OR receiver operating characteristic curve[Title/Abstract] OR c-index[Title/Abstract] OR receiver operating characteristic[Title/Abstract] OR concordance index[Title/Abstract] OR ROC[Title/Abstract] OR positive predictive value[Title/Abstract] OR negative predictive value[Title/Abstract] OR sensitivity[Title/Abstract] OR specificity[Title/Abstract]

Predictive factor
  • #3: coronary artery calcification[Title/Abstract] OR CAC[Title/Abstract] OR coronary artery calcium[Title/Abstract] OR coronary calcification[Title/Abstract] OR calcification[Title/Abstract] OR coronary arterial calcification[Title/Abstract] OR arterial calcification[Title/Abstract] OR calcium score[Title/Abstract] OR coronary computed tomographic angiography [Title/Abstract] OR CCTA [Title/Abstract]

  • #4: carotid*[Title/Abstract]) OR IMT [Title/Abstract]) OR intimal medial thickness [Title/Abstract]) OR Intima media thickness[Title/Abstract]

  • #5: plaque*[Title/Abstract] OR plaque volume[Title/Abstract] OR plaque size[Title/Abstract] OR atherosclerotic plaque[Title/Abstract]))

  • #6: FMD[ti/ab] OR brachial FMD [ti/ab] OR flow-mediated vasodilation[ti/ab] OR flow-mediated vasodilatation[ti/ab] OR flow-mediated dilatation[ti/ab] OR vasodilation[ti/ab] OR flow-mediated[ti/ab] OR endothelium[ti/ab] OR brachial artery[ti/ab] OR vasodilatation[ti/ab] OR endothelial dysfunction[ti/ab] OR brachial reactivity[ti/ab]

Outcome
  • #7: risk*[Title/Abstract] NOT risk factors[Title/Abstract] OR cardiovascular disease[Title/Abstract] OR mortality[Title/Abstract] OR cardiovascular death[Title/Abstract] OR predict[Title/Abstract] OR coronary heart disease[Title/Abstract] OR cerebrovascular disease[Title/Abstract] OR stroke[Title/Abstract] OR myocardial infarction[Title/Abstract] OR events[Title/Abstract]

Search results
  • #1: 1 361 034 hits

  • #2: 658 141 hits

  • #3: 29 000 hits

  • #4: 809 88 hits

  • #5: 79 158 hits

  • #6: 21 150 hits

  • #7: 1 672 619 hits

  • #1 and #2 and (#3 or #4 or #5 or #6) and #7: 1122 hits