Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Clinicians usually use a chest X-ray to make a diagnosis, like pneumonia or a lung mass,” Michael T. Lu, MD, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Race-free, sex-specific pooled cohort equations yield similar CVD risk discriminations as race- and sex-specific ...

ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus and PREVENT calculator would have classified many patients as low risk 48 hours before MI. (HealthDay News) — Population-based cardiac screening tools fail to identify many ...

Researchers used nearly 150,000 chest X-rays to train an artificial intelligence program to identify patterns in the images associated with risk from major cardiovascular disease events. They tested ...

A risk calculator that incorporates established cardiovascular risk factors and additional cardiac biomarkers, such as high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and N-terminal pro-B-type ...

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 ...

Panel (A) shows classifications based on the ASCVD Risk Estimator Plus, where 45% (209/465) of patients would not have qualified for statin therapy or further testing. Panel (B) displays results from ...

In 2013, the American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) created a “risk calculator” to estimate the 10-year risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) ...

Statins lower cholesterol and can reduce the risk for heart and circulatory disease. In 2013, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) expanded indications for ...

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 ...