CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
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Anxiety and depression are associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). We aimed to investigate whether adding measures of anxiety and depression to the American Heart Association Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) predictors improves the prediction of CVD risk. ⋯ Our findings suggest that the inclusion of measures of depression and anxiety in PREVENT would have little additional effect on the risk classification of CVD at the population level and may not be worthwhile.