Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are preventable through the use of certain contraceptives, including internal condoms, external condoms, and dental dams. While there are many types of birth ...

A blood clot is a potential complication after surgery. To help prevent blood clots, a doctor may advise doing exercises to promote blood flow, wearing compression garments, and taking blood-thinning ...

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 . Ten-year predicted ASCVD risk of 4% or more may serve as an adequate threshold for statin initiation based on ...

Cardiovascular risk prediction using the new PREVENT calculator developed by the American Heart Association appears to have variable calibration depending on the patients, their underlying ...

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 rules for statin and blood pressure (BP) medication initiation may need to be rewritten if a new and improved cardiovascular risk prediction tool is broadly implemented, research suggested. Use of ...

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 ...