Acknowledgements
We thank the participants in the Chin-Shan community and the cardiologists at the National Taiwan University Hospital for their assistance in this study. This study was supported partly by grants from the National Science Council in Taiwan. F. Hu’s research is partly supported by the American Heart Association Established Investigator Award. We are thankful to M. Pencina for kindly providing the SAS macro for computing NRI and IDI statistics.
Duality of interest
The authors declare that there is no duality of interest associated with this manuscript
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