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 ...

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 ...

A new calculator estimates a person's risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) over the next 30 years by combining measures of cardiovascular, kidney and metabolic health for the first time, according to ...