Studies to Test How Well PREVENT Predicts Heart Disease in Diverse Groups

Researchers have begun studying how accurately a new tool, known as the Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) calculator, estimates risk in people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds as well as from a range of ages, the American Heart Association announced. Three research teams will evaluate the new scores using larger databases and will assess PREVENT ’s fairness and cost-effectiveness compared with the Pooled Cohort Equations (PCEs).
Source: JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research