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Calibration of the Framingham model and the Cardiovascular Life Expectancy Model. Each model was used to estimate the risk of each Canadian subject in the Lipid Research Clinics Follow-Up Cohort, and all subjects were then rank-ordered from the lowest to highest risk. Dividing the cohort into risk quartiles, the mean risk estimated for each quartile was compared with the coronary death rate actually observed
