Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The QResearch database, a new QRISK model designed to estimate lifetime risk of CVD, identified patients in need ...

A new score for predicting a person's risk of heart disease performs better than the existing test and should be recommended for use in the United Kingdom by the National Institute for Health and ...

Experts at The University of Nottingham have developed a new 'score' to help GPs detect heart disease in younger people - before it damages their health. Using data from the electronic health records ...

NICE currently recommends that doctors use a modified version of the long-established Anderson Framingham risk score to identify who should be offered statin treatment to reduce their risk of heart ...

Exclusive GPs face a major upheaval to the way they assess patients for statin treatment, after the Joint British Societies decided to ditch 10-year risk prediction in favour of the QRisk Lifetime ...

A prediction tool that allows GPs to spot patients most at risk from heart disease and stroke before illness strikes is now more accurate than ever before, a study from the University of Nottingham ...

The BMA has reiterated warnings about the lack of update to QRISK2 calculators on GP software systems after it was completely disabled on EMIS last week. GPs have long warned of increased workload due ...

Experts have developed a new "score" to help GPs detect heart disease in younger people -- before it damages their health. Experts at The University of Nottingham have developed a new 'score' to help ...