Cholesterol Guideline Emphasizes Earlier Treatment - Medscape A new cardiovascular calculator targeting individuals aged 30-79 years can help prevent atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease by estimating long-term risk for heart attack and stroke
Risk-Calculator Flaws Not Explained by Statin Use - Medscape In an attempt to understand why the WHS cohort had a lower 10-year risk of ASCVD than that using the ACC AHA risk calculator, researchers asked whether patients starting statins or undergoing
Current Risk Scores Miss Nearly Half of First Heart Attacks Nearly half of adults with a first myocardial infarction show low or borderline risk on current risk estimators Most develop symptoms only within 48 hours and would not qualify for statins earlier
New Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator Debated Again The REGARDS researchers provide some clarification on their trial and suggest the new cardiovascular disease risk equation might be more valid than suggested by two Boston researchers
Should CV Risk Equations Add Lp (a)? - Medscape They also demonstrated that adding Lp (a) to the pooled cohort equations ASCVD risk calculator correctly reclassified 45% of borderline-intermediate risk patients who experienced incident ASCVD as
What PCPs Need to Know About the New BP Guidelines - Medscape A lot of us might be saying the PREVENT calculator is basically an updated version of the old ASCVD risk calculator — technically called the Pooled Cohort Equation or PCE calculator — that we
CVD Risk for Ex-Smokers May Linger a Decade or More - Medscape Cardiovascular disease risk dips drastically after quitting smoking, but it may take 10 to 15 years for the risk of former smokers to reach that of 'never smokers,' much longer than previously