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HomeCirculationVol. 105, No. 7Correction Free AccessCorrectionPDF/EPUBAboutView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toFree AccessCorrectionPDF/EPUBCorrection Originally published19 Feb 2002https://doi.org/10.1161/circ.105.7.900Circulation. 2002;105:900This article corrects the followingSimple Scoring Scheme for Calculating the Risk of Acute Coronary Events Based on the 10-Year Follow-Up of the Prospective Cardiovascular Münster (PROCAM) StudyIn the article, “Simple Scoring Scheme for Calculating the Risk of Acute Coronary Events Based on the 10-Year Follow-Up of the Prospective Cardiovascular Münster (PROCAM) Study,” by Assmann et al that appeared in the January 22, 2002, issue of the journal (Circulation. 2002; 105:310–315), an error occurred in the Methods section.In the paragraph headed “Construction of Cox Model” on page 312, the following sentence was incorrect: “In the scoring of the variable ‘family history,’ those men whose first-degree relatives were all younger than 60 years of age were coded as ‘negative family history’ in both cases, providing no coronary events had occurred among those family members.”The sentence should be replaced with the following: “In the scoring of the variable ‘family history,’ those men whose first-degree relatives were all younger than 60 years of age were coded as ‘negative family history’; those men whose first-degree relatives died before age 60 years from a noncoronary cause, such as a traffic accident, were also classified as ‘negative family history,’ in both cases providing no coronary events had occurred among those family members.” Previous Back to top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited By Bandyopadhyay S, Wolfson J, Vock D, Vazquez-Benitez G, Adomavicius G, Elidrisi M, Johnson P and O’Connor P (2014) Data mining for censored time-to-event data: a Bayesian network model for predicting cardiovascular risk from electronic health record data, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 10.1007/s10618-014-0386-6, 29:4, (1033-1069), Online publication date: 1-Jul-2015. Related articlesSimple Scoring Scheme for Calculating the Risk of Acute Coronary Events Based on the 10-Year Follow-Up of the Prospective Cardiovascular Münster (PROCAM) StudyGerd Assmann, et al. Circulation. 2002;105:310-315 February 19, 2002Vol 105, Issue 7 Advertisement Article InformationMetrics https://doi.org/10.1161/circ.105.7.900 Originally publishedFebruary 19, 2002 PDF download Advertisement