Chronic inflammation and traditional risk factors increase cardiovascular risk...doi:10.1007/s10067-018-4181-4Wah-Suarez Martin I.Galarza-Delgado Dionicio A.Azpiri-Lopez Jose R.Colunga-Pedraza Iris J.Cardenas-de la Garza Jesus AlbertoVera-Pineda Raymundo...
Text Roughly 45 million people in the US take statins, the cholesterol-lowering medications used to prevent cardiovascular disease. Many patients without heart disease, though, are taking them based on older estimates of their risk of developing it. Now, research suggests that millions of them may...
ASCVD 10-Year risk calculator to predict the risk of a first hard ASCVD (atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease) event
The risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) is related to environmental factors and genetic variants. Apolipoprotein E (apoE) polymorphisms are heritable determinants of total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, with some authors suggesting an association between the ε4 allele and CHD. We investigat...
The calculator walks users through a series of easy-to-follow questions about their lifestyle, such as "Do you smoke cigarettes?" and "During the past year, how often, on average, do you eat a serving of fruit?" Users receive a risk score of low (green), moderate (yellow), or high...
6-8 The advent of genetic research and promulgation of polygenic risk analyses across the globe has added a new perspective to CVD prevention.9-11 In current clinical practice in the US, standard of care includes using a risk calculator to estimate a patient’s absolute risk for ASCVD, a ...
Disease (FRS-CVD), QRISK2, Joint British Society risk calculator 3 (JBS3), American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA), atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and WHO risk charts, assuming that they had presented one day before cardiac event for risk assessment. ...
The calculator for high CVD risk countries was used, as Poland belongs to this category. Subsequently, the study population was divided into CV risk classes according to the latest recommendation 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice [8]. Initially, high- and...
Earlier implementation of needed medication can reduce risk in young adults, but further implementation science is needed to improve guideline adherence and decrease disparities in BP control.16 Better management of hypertension can be achieved: no new tests are necessary, office/home BP measurements ...
These calculators are modeled to a particular population; therefore, the choice of which risk calculator to use is important. Below, we will discuss the benefits and pitfalls of using risk calculators to guide decision to treat. The Framingham Risk score is a risk calculator based on a ...