CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factorsCARDIOVASCULAR diseasesSTATINS (Cardiovascular agents)CALCULATORSINTERNAL medicineThis Medical News article discusses a recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine that estimated statin eligibility using the new PREVENT equations compared with the older equations....
FullText 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 ...
According to this date, the population was divided into two subgroups: before the COVID-19 pandemic (group I, n = 691) and during the COVID-19 pandemic (group II, n = 816). In the population during the COVID-19 pandemic, the anti-nucleocapsid-IgG antibody (anti-N IgG) ...
That is why cardio-metabolic risk prediction should be superior in the primary prevention of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular diseases. Up-to-date primary ... H Rosolova,B Nussbaumerova - 《Epma Journal》 被引量: 36发表: 2011年 Performance of the UKPDS Outcomes Model for Prediction of Myocardia...
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 composite outcome including CAD events (nonfatal myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease death), and fatal or nonfatal stroke. Prior research...
10-year risk of cardiovascular disease (heart attack or stroke (fatal or non-fatal), heart failure, angina, or intermittent claudication) Your risk 8.1% No Event Treatment Benefit Event 2. Choose your treatments Lifestyle options Mediterranean diet Physical activity Medication options (only select...
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...
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 current treatment guidelines for cholesterol and blood pressure
The median overall follow-up time from the date of referral was 3.8 years, with the median time between first (pre-procedure) and last (post-procedure) echocardiogram being 2.6 years (IQR 1.1–6.7). At last follow-up, the mean patient age was 9.5 years, with 16 patients (11%) being ...
However, to date, it is unknown how many randomized clinical trials (RCTs) perform adjustments for multiple comparisons, the lack of which could lead to erroneous findings. Objectives To assess the prevalence of multiplicity and whether appropriate multiplicity adjustments were performed among ...