The PREVENT risk calculator helped to identify people with plaque buildup in the arteries of the heart, in addition to ...

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 ...

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.

We believe that a cardiovascular risk calculator specific to the renal transplant population, which takes into account all the important risk factors for a cardiovascular event, based upon a high ...

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 ...

Abbott's Tendyne transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR) system was approved by the FDA and indicated for those with ...

If millions of Americans no longer qualify for a statin or a blood pressure medication based on a new calculator updated to better predict their risk, that could lead to 107,000 more heart attacks ...

In recognition of these changes, the American Heart Association last year released a new risk calculator, called PREVENT, that includes measures of metabolic and kidney health and makes it ...

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 ...

For the new study, Dr. Tim Anderson, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and colleagues analyzed the potential impact of a new heart disease risk calculator ...

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 ...