Screening for cardiovascular disease does not lead to a lower mortality after 5 years. Danish researchers recently concluded that in The New England Journal of Medicine. Epidemiologists say it makes no sense to introduce extensive screening for cardiovascular disease for other reasons.
An estimated 25-75% of strokes and cardiac events should be preventable with early detection. To determine whether screening could contribute to this, the researchers randomized 46,611 Danish men aged 65-74 to screening (n = 16,736) or no screening (n = 29,790) for cardiovascular disease (including atrial fibrillation…
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