In a large cohort study, the Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events calculator underestimated overall risk for ...

New medical guidelines suggest people with high cholesterol may start taking statins as early as age 30, instead of 40. 1 ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

Postmenopausal women at a greater risk for CVD are likelier to experience major bone and hip fractures, new data show.The ...

A major new U.S. cholesterol guideline is shifting the focus toward earlier, more personalized prevention of heart disease. It urges people to start screening sooner—sometimes even in childhood—and ...

The American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and other major medical organizations have released new ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The Framingham model for global cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk may significantly underestimate the likelihood of CV events in HIV-infected patients, say researchers, who believe ...