The latest American Heart Association (AHA) calculator for assessing atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk performs well in patients with high and low lipoprotein(a) levels, a new ...

Late-stage failure of the left side of the heart is an often-fatal condition affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. alone. A mechanical heart pump can be a lifesaving intervention for ...

There’s an easy way to see your chances of having a heart attack, years—even decades—before it happens. Think of it like a medical version of a long-range weather forecast. It’s all possible with a ...

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 ...

Dropping the current calculator for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk assessment—the pooled cohort equations (PCEs)—and adopting the American Heart Association’s PREVENT calculator ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Use of a new risk calculator could reduce eligibility for statins and BP drugs by nearly 16 million U.S. adults.

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 ...

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 ...

Breast cancer is now the leading cause of global cancer incidence among women but determining who will develop breast cancer is still a challenge for the medical community. A new tool, developed by ...