The PREVENT risk calculator helped to identify people with plaque buildup in the arteries of the heart, in addition to predicting their risk of a future heart attack, according to new research ...

Under the new risk formula, 72.7 million adults would be eligible for blood pressure medications, compared with 75.3 million under the 2013 formula. The change would occur mostly among adult men ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 795,000 Americans experience a stroke every year ...

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.

Researchers discovered lower rates of certain cardiovascular risk factors between people who were self-employed and those who ...

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 ...

For the new study, Dr. Tim Anderson, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues analyzed the potential impact of a new heart disease risk calculator ...

If and when that change happens, it will reflect the use of a new risk calculator the American Heart Association released last year. Using this calculator, along with data from a national ...

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 ...