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A new study suggests the AHA's PREVENT risk calculator may reduce statin use for primary prevention, affecting eligibility for millions of adults.

People with heart disease may receive different care because of how race is interpreted in health risk calculators and other tools that help clinicians make treatment decisions.

This Medical News article discusses the American Heart Association’s new cardiovascular disease risk calculator, called PREVENT.

SAB is a complicated disease state with a high mortality rate.

This Medical News article discusses the American Heart Association’s new cardiovascular disease risk calculator, called PREVENT.

The new cardiovascular disease risk equations start at age 30, include measures of kidney and metabolic health, add heart failure, and remove race from the equations.

For the first time in 10 years, the American Heart Association (AHA) has updated the model to predict someone’s risk of developing heart disease, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study published today (Nov. 10) in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation.

Experts have unveiled a new tool to predict a person's long-term risk of cardiovascular disease, one that includes broader measures of health and provides sex-specific results but leaves out considerations of race. The new tool, or risk calculator, evaluates the risk of heart att...

PREVENT equations developed and validated in adults aged 30 to 79 years without known CVD and included eGFR as a predictor

The tool assesses the risk of heart attack, stroke, and, for the first time, heart failure, offering a more comprehensive perspective on cardiovascular health.