Blood clots that occur within veins or arteries can cause serious health problems. Certain exercises and stretches can help prevent blood clots. Blood clots typically affect veins in the arms, legs, ...
The PREVENT equations from the American Heart Association (AHA) accurately predict 10-year risk of mortality related to cardiovascular disease in the US general population, according to an external ...
People can make lifestyle modifications to help prevent spinal stenosis. These may include maintaining a moderate weight, quitting smoking, and practicing appropriate posture. Spinal stenosis ...
ATLANTA, GA—Compared with optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone, a preventative strategy of PCI to treat vulnerable plaques on top of OMT may reduce the incidence of serious CV events over the next 2 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Ten-year predicted ASCVD risk of 4% or more may serve as an adequate threshold for statin initiation based on ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AHA and ACC unveiled a companion document to their recently published hypertension guideline. The document ...
The PREVENT equations show excellent discrimination in predicting CVD risk, outperforming the Pooled Cohort Equations (PCE) in mortality prediction. Developed using data from over 6.5 million ...
A newer tool used to assess cardiovascular disease risk comes with both answers…and some questions. “These results were not surprising to us,” investigators Adam Bress, PharmD, MS, and Catherine ...
PREVENT equation accurately estimated 10-year CVD risk and those with calcium buildup And adding coronary calcium score to PREVENT improved estimates for heart attack risk, finds a new study in the ...