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 no ...
New Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator Could Eliminate the Need for Statins for Millionsdoi:10.1001/jama.2024.8590CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factorsCARDIOVASCULAR diseasesSTATINS (Cardiovascular agents)CALCULATORSINTERNAL medicineThis Medical News article discusses a recent study in JAMA Interna...
ASCVD 10-Year risk calculator to predict the risk of a first hard ASCVD (atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease) event
"A new cardiovascular disease risk calculator was needed, particularly one that includes measures of CKM syndrome, which is highly prevalent in the U.S.," said Sadiya S. Khan, M.D., M.Sc., FAHA, chair of the statement writing committee for the Association. "The new PREVENT risk calculato...
This calculator helps health care providers to estimate 10-year risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), defined as coronary death or nonfatal myocardial infarction, or fatal or nonfatal stroke, based on the Pooled Cohort Equations. The information required to estimate ASCVD risk inclu...
Duke researchers have created a new web-based application to help doctors assess their patients' risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Over the past year and a half, the Duke Clinical Research Institute has been collaborating with Cerner—a developer of healthcare solut...
The risk calculator, SCORE2, will be adopted by the upcoming European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice, and enables doctors across Europe to predict who's at risk of having aheart attackor stroke in the next 10 years with greater accuracy. ...
Our 10-year cardiovascular risk calculator is for people aged 30-79, with no heart attack history, claudication, coronary heart disease, or any other cardiovascular event. Follow the steps enumerated below for the full benefit of our Framingham risk calculator 2017: Enter your age in years. Car...
HeartScoreis a free cardiac risk calculator for Windows. It lets you calculate the risk of getting a heart attack in next 10 years. It requires your personal data, full score, andBMIscore in order to calculate the cardiovascular disease risk. Your personal data includes general information, lik...
Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality of Filipino-Americans, conventional CVD risk calculators may not be accurate for this population. CVD risk scores of a group of Filipino-American women (FAW) were measured using the major risk calculators. Secondly...