PREVENT cardiovasc risk calculator increases disease!
The American Heart Association developed their new PREVENT Cardiovascular Risk calculator in 2023 to improve upon the currently commonly used 2013 ASCVD risk calculator, modified in 2018. A new evaluation of PREVENT found that its use would be associated with a very large increase in myocardial infarction or stroke over 10 years: see ASCVD PREVENT risk assoc inc CVD JAMA2024 in dropbox, or doi:10.1001/jama.2024.12537 Details : -- these researchers estimated the number of US adults who would experience changes in cardiovascular risk categorization, treatment eligibility, or clinical outcomes when comparing the anticipated results from the PREVENT equations to the results from the ACC/AHA ASCVD (atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease) risk calculator, by using the NHANES database -- the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) is a nationally representative cro...