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 ...

Lifestyle factors such as regular exercise, sleeping position, lifting correctly, maintaining a moderate weight, and practicing proper posture may all help prevent and relieve lower back pain. People ...

A new analysis shows the 2025 hypertension guideline’s risk-based framework spares a small subgroup from immediate treatment.

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

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PREVENT equation may more accurately guide aspirin initiation vs. the Pooled Cohort Equations. Many patients ...

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 ...

Strong discrimination for total CVD was observed with the base PREVENT equation, with C indexes of 0.764 (White), 0.773 (Asian), and 0.757 (Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander). Marked ...