TCTMD

Study Validates Accuracy of PREVENT for CVD Mortality Risk Prediction

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 ...
TCTMD

PREVENT Risk Calculator’s Accuracy Varies by Healthcare System, Patient Factors

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 ...
Healio

PREVENT calculator predicts benefit of statin therapy at varying risk thresholds

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 ...
Healio

AHA/ACC: Use PREVENT model to improve outcomes in hypertension management

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 American Journal of Managed Care

Evaluating the American Heart Association’s PREVENT Equations: Enhancing CVD Risk Prediction

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 ...
Medscape

Is the PREVENT Calculator Best for Determining CVD Risk? Insights From a Post Hoc Analysis of SPRINT Trial

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 ...