Older adults may benefit from a recently introduced tool that assesses their risk for heart disease, according to a new study ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The new American Heart Association PREVENTTM risk calculator estimates the 10- and 30-year risk of total cardiovascular disease for people aged 30 years and older. The calculator estimates the ...

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 ...

Lp(a) only modestly improved prediction when added to risk estimates, but it still can be used to personalize care.

The QR4 algorithm, described in the journal Nature Medicine, can be thought of as a “calculator” that ... can have an impact on heart health. Two new risk factors that apply only to 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 ...

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 ...