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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

There’s an easy way to see your chances of having a heart attack, years—even decades—before it happens. Think of it like a medical version of a long-range weather forecast. It’s all possible with a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Those with stage 1 hypertension had lower 10-year ASCVD risk when estimated using new PREVENT equations. Use of ...

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 ...