Healthy Heart Score, a cardiovascular health calculator developed by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, allows people to identify their risks for heart disease in the next 20 years.

Using this calculator requires two immediate steps — assess baseline cardiovascular disease risk and then calculate the benefits and harms from starting aspirin, a statin, a blood pressure ...

With the MESA 10-year CHD risk calculator, clinicians can enter risk factors either before or after the CAC score is determined.

The calcium score definitely changed the recommendation. A calcium score of 0 would mean a 2.4% risk of a heart event in the next 10 years, so it clearly changes the recommendation about statins.

An online calculator using lifestyle metrics showed initial success at predicting the risk of heart disease events among young, healthy adults, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal ...

New heart "calculator" lets you find out how old your heart really is. Researchers examined data from 578,525 individuals and found that most U.S. adults between the ages of 30 to 74 have hearts ...

When physicians track seven factors of heart attack patients after they are first admitted to the hospital, they can help identify those with the highest risk for 30-day readmission, researchers ...

The easy-to-calculate HEART score incorporates elements of the history, ECG, and cardiac troponin levels in evaluating patients with possible AMI.

Using an innovative risk score assessment score, heart researchers at Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City say they can accurately predict whether patients being assessed for kidney transplant ...

The online calculator translates users' routine health data into a ‘heart age’ score that aims to make cardiovascular risk more relatable and actionable, especially in busy primary care settings.