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 ...

Blood clots that occur within veins or arteries can cause serious health problems. Certain exercises and stretches can help prevent blood clots. Blood clots typically affect veins in the arms, legs, ...

ATLANTA, GA—Compared with optimal medical therapy (OMT) alone, a preventative strategy of PCI to treat vulnerable plaques on top of OMT may reduce the incidence of serious CV events over the next 2 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has unveiled a new heart disease risk calculator that aims to estimate an individual's long-term risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The new Predicting Risk of ...

PREVENT equation accurately estimated 10-year CVD risk and those with calcium buildup And adding coronary calcium score to PREVENT improved estimates for heart attack risk, finds a new study in the ...