Kidney failure risk equations developed in a Canadian population showed accuracy in predicting the 2-year and 5-year probability of kidney failure in patients with chronic kidney disease from over 30 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) introduced a tool for calculating atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk—also called the Pooled Cohort ...

A series of randomized clinical trials have taken the shine off aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, but the creators of new sex-specific bleeding-risk equations believe they ...

The researchers found that the mean estimated 10-year risk for heart failure was 3.7%; overall, 15.0 million adults were classified as having intermediate or high (elevated) risk for heart failure.

Researchers identify potential reductions in statin and antihypertensive therapy eligibility using Predicting Risk of cardiovascular disease EVENTs (PREVENT) equations. Applying the Predicting Risk of ...

HealthDay News — The Pooled Cohort Equations (PCE) cardiovascular risk score stratifies risk for multiple ocular diseases, according to a study published online Dec. 29 in Ophthalmology.

Diabetes Care. 2007;30(5):1292-1293. The 10-year fatal CHD event rate (95% CI) observed in the UKPDS was 6.3% (5.5-7.1). The Framingham risk equation underestimated this rate (AR 4.3%), while the ...