New heart disease calculator could save lives by identifying high-risk patients missed by current tools

Collaborative research, led from the University of Oxford and published today in Nature Medicine, has developed a new tool called QR4 that more accurately predicts an individual’s 10-year risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as heart disease and stroke, particularly identifying high-risk patients that current prediction tools miss.

This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

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