Since the publication of the 2012 guidelines new literature has emerged to inform decision-
making. The 2016 guidelines primary panel selected a number of clinically relevant …

Background Shared decision making requires evidence to be conveyed to the patient in a
way they can easily understand and compare. Patient decision aids facilitate this process …

Many developments have occurred since the publication of the widely-used 2009 Canadian
Cardiovascular Society (CCS) Dyslipidemia guidelines. Here, we present an updated …

Prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the largest public health
challenges of our time. Identifying individuals at increased cardiovascular risk at an …

Background The current paradigm for cardiovascular disease (CVD) emphasises absolute
risk assessment to guide treatment decisions in primary prevention. Although the derivation …

Background Vascular age is an alternate means of representing an individual's
cardiovascular risk. Little consensus exists on what vascular age represents and its clinical …

Aims To test whether communicating cardiovascular diseases (CVD) risk using a novel risk
assessment tool (Heart Age) will be able to motivate a population to adopt healthier lifestyles …

We updated the evidence-based recommendations for the diagnosis, assessment,
prevention, and treatment of hypertension in adults for 2011. The major guideline changes …

An extensive, in-depth study of cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) seems to be of crucial
importance in the research of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in order to prevent (or reduce) …

Abstract Electrocardiographic (ECG) Heart Age conveying cardiovascular risk has been
estimated by both Bayesian and artificial intelligence approaches. We hypothesised that …