This study validates the Predicting Risk of CVD Events (PREVENT) score across diverse racial and ethnic populations, highlighting its effectiveness in predicting cardiovascular risk and mortality, ...

Strong discrimination for total CVD was observed with the base PREVENT equation, with C indexes of 0.764 (White), 0.773 (Asian), and 0.757 (Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander). Marked ...

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 ...

An individual’s estimated risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years is widely used to guide preventative medication prescriptions with statins or antihypertensive drugs in those who ...

Investigators found that the Kidney Disease Risk Equation can predict a patient’s likelihood of developing chronic kidney disease, based on readily available information. Results from the study will ...

Whether to measure Lp(a), a lipoprotein associated with increased cardiovascular risk, and how to use that information in risk assessment is a hot topic in cardiovascular medicine. The American Heart ...

If national guidelines are revised to incorporate a new risk equation, about 40% fewer people could meet criteria for cholesterol-lowering statins to prevent heart disease, according to a study by ...

If national guidelines are revised to incorporate a new risk equation, about 40% fewer people could meet criteria for cholesterol-lowering statins to prevent heart disease. The study examines the ...

Use of cystatin C and SGLT2 inhibitors were highlighted in the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization's updated clinical practice guideline. In a synopsis of the recently ...

The Kidney Cancer Risk Equation for predicting post-nephrectomy ESKD builds on the ubiquitous Kidney Failure Risk Equation and is easy to use, according to investigators. Investigators have created a ...