Agreement between cardiovascular disease risk assessment tools: An application to the United Arab Emirates population

Abderrahim Oulhaj; Sherif Bakir; Faisal Aziz; Abubaker Suliman; Wael Almahmeed; Harald Sourij; Abdulla Shehab

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228031

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Agreement between cardiovascular disease risk assessment tools: An application to the United Arab Emirates population

Abderrahim Oulhaj ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: aoulhaj@uaeu.ac.ae

Affiliations Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates, Zayed Center for Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5330-904X

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Sherif Bakir,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiology Department, Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, United Arab Emirates
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Faisal Aziz,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiovascular Diabetology Research Group, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, Center for Biomarker Research in Medicine (CBmed), Graz, Austria
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Abubaker Suliman,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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Wael Almahmeed,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Harald Sourij,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Zayed Center for Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, United Arab Emirates, Cardiovascular Diabetology Research Group, Division of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Abdulla Shehab

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
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Agreement between cardiovascular disease risk assessment tools: An application to the United Arab Emirates population

Abderrahim Oulhaj,
Sherif Bakir,
Faisal Aziz,
Abubaker Suliman,
Wael Almahmeed,
Harald Sourij,
Abdulla Shehab

Published: January 24, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228031

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