A newer tool used to assess cardiovascular disease risk comes with both answers…and some questions. “These results were not surprising to us,” investigators Adam Bress, PharmD, MS, and Catherine ...

Who knew? Kidney disease is one of the warning signs for heart disease. If you want to lower your risk of total cardiovascular disease, including clogged arteries and heart failure, take a look at the ...

Heart disease cases have skyrocketed across the globe. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), 19.8 million people died from cardiovascular disease (CVDs) in 2022, which is 32% of all global ...

The PREVENT calculator underestimated risk for CVD in patients with RA to a greater degree vs. a control group. Performance of the calculator improved after incorporating hemoglobin A1c levels.

Australia's updated cardiovascular disease risk calculator is identifying substantially more Australians aged 45–74 as being at "intermediate" risk of heart attack and stroke, according to new ...

A quiet update to a doctor's tool is changing who should be talking about their heart. Image Source: Photo By: Kaboompics.com ...

Liz covers cardiovascular and metabolic disease, asking why we’re not doing better or even losing ground against the world’s leading killer. Send tips on Signal at LizC.22. Just over a year ago the ...

A new risk calculator accurately identified participants who had calcium buildup in their heart arteries and those who had a higher future heart attack risk, in an analysis of about 7,000 adults in ...

Although cardiovascular disease risk prediction models are developed with predominantly white populations, application of models to a large black population finds that they work well in black ...

Experts say the updated guidelines better calculate risk for diverse groups. But it could mean some adults should now consider treatment to lower cholesterol. A new heart disease risk calculator moved ...

Chrisandra L. Shufelt, MD, MS, FACP, MSCP, professor and chair of the Division of General Internal Medicine and associate ...

Female reproductive factors minimally impacted cardiovascular disease risk prediction models. Only female-specific factors as a group, not individually, were linked with marginal improvements in risk ...