Share on Pinterest The American Heart Association is hoping people can better understand their heart disease risk thanks to a new tool. Thitikarn Paothongthai/Getty Images The American Heart ...

A new online tool based on the PREVENT equations offers detailed population-based estimates of cardiovascular risk out to 30 years in younger adults, with the predictions stratified by age and sex.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The new AHA PREVENT equations are designed to predict long-term absolute risk tied to CV-kidney-metabolic ...

Millions of US adults would no longer need to take a statin for the primary prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) if their eligibility were based on the new PREVENT risk ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Those with stage 1 hypertension had lower 10-year ASCVD risk when estimated using new PREVENT equations. Use of ...

Based on the PREVENT risk calculator, researchers developed age- and sex-specific percentiles for 30-year absolute risk estimates for cardiovascular disease. Framing risk relative to peers by age and ...