What’s Behind the CV Risk Calculator Controversy? PLAINSBORO, N.J. — November’s dispute over the accuracy of the cardiovascular risk calculator, unveiled with great fanfare at the annual meeting of ...

If current guidelines for cholesterol and high blood pressure treatment remain unchanged, a newly unveiled heart risk calculator would render 16 million people ineligible for preventive therapy. Loss ...

Medical scholars on both sides of the very public dispute over new disease prevention guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) expected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The National Institute on Aging has awarded a $2.2 million grant to investigators from Cleveland Clinic and The ...

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.

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND — On two continents now, the controversial calculator of 10-year cardiovascular risk introduced last year in a new set of guidelines from the AHA and ACC classifies an ...