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 ...

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 ...

Late-stage failure of the left side of the heart is an often-fatal condition affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. alone. A mechanical heart pump can be a lifesaving intervention for ...

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 ...

A new calculator estimates a person's risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) over the next 30 years by combining measures of cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health for the first time, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of a new risk calculator could reduce eligibility for statins and BP drugs by nearly 16 million U.S. adults.

Physicians can use the new improved stroke risk calculator online for easy access. Although the calculator is not yet ready for use in clinics, Short is immensely excited and gratified that their ...

Researchers at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, have developed a new calculator ...