What is the purpose of the Framingham score?
The Framingham score is a risk assessment tool developed from clinical and laboratory evaluation of ambulatory populations with suspected CAD. It is used to estimate the likelihood of future cardiac events such as coronary mortality and coronary events during short-term and long-term follow-up of patients with SIHD. It was derived from populations that included large numbers of low-risk individuals without disease in their low-risk subsets.