Truth: new
equations for risk assessment, and the
computer based on them, are based on the best scientific data available.
They represent a significant improvement over previous
approaches, which were based on studies primarily on white men, as a result of risk factors and
development of heart disease over time.
These approaches have been familiar based on the best data
available at the time patients.
We now know that cardiovascular
disease can evolve differently in different populations, and we
know that the risk of having a stroke is very
important to most of us.
The new guidelines are based on data that allow African-Americans, for the
first time to assess the specific risk for them.
In addition, for all of us , the guidelines include an assessment of our risk for both heart attack and stroke, which has
not been calculated in the previous risk tools . And
for young people , especially women , the opportunity to watch their risk of their
lives, rather than just the next 10 years , giving
them greater power to make choices now, while there is still time, that give
them longer and healthier.
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