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Multi-disease risk prediction models for population-scale personalised screening

2026-02-03 public and global health Title + abstract only
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An increased emphasis on disease prevention is essential to improve population health and reduce healthcare resource needs. Key requirements for effective population scale prevention programmes are an optimal balance between simplicity of screening and accuracy of risk prediction at individual level. We developed models of varying complexity to predict the incident risk of 24 diseases in the UK Biobank population, testing combinations of modalities including established clinical variable-based r...

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