Risk-Calculator Flaws Not Explained by Statin Use - Medscape In an attempt to understand why the WHS cohort had a lower 10-year risk of ASCVD than that using the ACC AHA risk calculator, researchers asked whether patients starting statins or undergoing
Current Risk Scores Miss Nearly Half of First Heart Attacks Nearly half of adults with a first myocardial infarction show low or borderline risk on current risk estimators Most develop symptoms only within 48 hours and would not qualify for statins earlier
Should CV Risk Equations Add Lp (a)? - Medscape They also demonstrated that adding Lp (a) to the pooled cohort equations ASCVD risk calculator correctly reclassified 45% of borderline-intermediate risk patients who experienced incident ASCVD as
New Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator Debated Again The REGARDS researchers provide some clarification on their trial and suggest the new cardiovascular disease risk equation might be more valid than suggested by two Boston researchers
What PCPs Need to Know About the New BP Guidelines - Medscape A lot of us might be saying the PREVENT calculator is basically an updated version of the old ASCVD risk calculator — technically called the Pooled Cohort Equation or PCE calculator — that we
CV Risk Assessment: A Process, Not a Calculation - Medscape Let's start with the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk calculator and the pooled cohort equations I understand that we are using the same pooled cohort equations as before
How Good Is the New ACC AHA Risk Calculator? - Medscape Is the new calculator for the assessment of the 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease flawed or does it work exactly as the authors of the risk-assessment guideline committee expected it to?