Cardiovascular risk tool overestimates actual chance of cardiovascular events
Monday, May 2, 2016 - 21:10
in Health & Medicine
A widely recommended risk calculator for predicting a person's chance of experiencing a cardiovascular disease event -- such as heart attack, ischemic stroke or dying from coronary artery disease -- has been found to substantially overestimate the actual five-year risk in adults overall and across all sociodemographic subgroups.