The PREVENT (Predicting Risk of cardiovascular disease EVENTs) risk calculator, released by the American Heart Association in 2023, can estimate the 10-year and 30-year risk for heart attack, stroke, ...

If current guidelines for cholesterol and high blood pressure treatment remain unchanged, a newly unveiled heart risk calculator would render 16 million people ineligible for preventive therapy. Loss ...

DALLAS, TX – Is the new calculator for assessing the 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease flawed, as suggested by a recent news article, or does it work exactly as the committee ...

Their findings, published in two studies in the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, show that adding blood tests to an existing risk calculator can help physicians better determine who truly needs ...

Cardiovascular risk prediction using the new PREVENT calculator developed by the American Heart Association appears to have variable calibration depending on the patients, their underlying ...

Doctors are thinking differently about what drives cardiovascular issues. It’s no longer just about blood pressure and cholesterol. By Nina Agrawal Heart disease is the leading killer of men and women ...

A cardiovascular risk calculator routinely used by physicians underestimates the risk for women and Black people living with HIV in high-income countries, while it overestimates risk for people living ...

A recently unveiled cardiovascular disease risk calculator that measures a patient’s risk for heart attack and stroke is better calibrated and more precise than its previous version, but if current ...