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 ...

When Olivia Munn revealed this week that she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a double mastectomy, she urged people to ask their doctors to figure out their score on a breast cancer risk ...

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 ...

Millions of US adults would no longer need to take a statin for the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) if their eligibility were based on the new PREVENT risk ...

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 risk of ...

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