What is overall cardiovascular risk?
What counts as a major cardiovascular event, why risk factors multiply rather than add up, the history from Framingham to SCORE2, and the equations used.
Read →Blog — Cardiovascular risk
In-depth articles that go further than the test, with the same sourcing standards.
← Back to the "What is my cardiovascular risk?" testWhy calculate your overall cardiovascular risk?
Primary and secondary prevention, shared medical decision-making, and why anticipating rather than reacting changes the whole nature of the approach.
Read →How to interpret your cardiovascular risk score
What a 10-year risk means, why the thresholds change with age, the ASCVD equations used in the United States, and what the score doesn't measure.
Read →Cardiovascular risk factors: modifiable and non-modifiable
The factors you can't change, those that are the real target of prevention, special situations to know about, and lesser-known emerging risk factors.
Read →What to do after a high cardiovascular risk result?
First-line measures, concrete numerical targets, when medication comes into play, and the warning signs to know.
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