This tool ultimately is used to influence patient behavior over the long-term. Accuracy is critical. Also, important is that the tool support a doctor to conduct patient counselling. Thus, the doctor must be able to guide the patient to understand what factors are driving risk, and of those factors which are controllable by either medication intervention or lifestyle changes and which are genetic. Thus, the doctor must be positioned to describe the set of risk factors that led the patient to the current likelihood prediction, or the predictor risks having limited ability to influence behavior.
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