Many experts consider the new online calculator a promising addition to the repertoire of tools available to help prevent heart disease. It’s meant to inspire conversations with clinicians, not ...

A new study raises concerns that the PREVENT calculator may underestimate cardiovascular risk in some young adult populations.

“I’ll worry about my heart health when I’m older.” That may be too late, doctors warn. While the average age for being diagnosed with heart disease in the United States is typically in the mid-60s for ...

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.

Although cardiovascular disease risk prediction models are developed with predominantly white populations, application of models to a large black population finds that they work well in black ...

Female reproductive factors minimally impacted cardiovascular disease risk prediction models. Only female-specific factors as a group, not individually, were linked with marginal improvements in risk ...

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 ...

Known risk factors for CVD among women, when added to commonly used risk calculators, don’t improve the tools’ ability to tease out which female patients need to start an antihypertensive or ...