The latest American Heart Association (AHA) calculator for assessing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk performs well in patients with high and low lipoprotein(a) levels, a new ...
Dropping the current calculator for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk assessment—the pooled cohort equations (PCEs)—and adopting the American Heart Association’s PREVENT calculator ...
What is a person’s risk of developing diabetes in 10 years? A tool created by researchers at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; the Federal University of Espírito Santo ...
Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Just over a year ago the PREVENT calculator to ...
The rules for statin and blood pressure (BP) medication initiation may need to be rewritten if a new and improved cardiovascular risk prediction tool is broadly implemented, research suggested. Use of ...
Earlier this month, Olivia Munn revealed in an Instagram post that the same test that led her to discover her high breast cancer risk has also saved her mom's life. Despite a normal mammogram, her mom ...
In 2013, the American Heart Association (AHA) thought it had heart disease prevention all figured out with their trusty "risk calculator." Fast forward a decade to the new and improved PREVENT ...
Researchers from Mass General Brigham have developed a new genetic risk calculator designed to predict not just who may develop obesity or Type 2 diabetes, but how those conditions could affect ...
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 ...