Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a cross-sectional study, 50 patients (30 men, 21 women) aged 25 to 70 years with a functioning graft 1 year ...

The American Journal of Preventive Cardiology (AJPC) announced the publication of a new study, "Systematic Examination of the PREVENT Equations for Cardiovascular Disease Risk", examining how the ...

In an analysis of almost 11,000 patients, an assessment of equations that help guide whether a patient should begin taking a statin (cholesterol lowering medication) found that observed and predicted ...

Obesity and undernutrition co-exist in many regions of Mexico. However, accurate assessments are difficult because epidemiological data on body composition are not available. The aim of this study was ...

Current equations for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that use serum creatinine or cystatin C incorporate age, sex, and race to estimate measured GFR. However, race in eGFR equations is a ...

Banner image: Skin cells as seen under the microscope. (Credit: Eric Bunker/Liu Lab) When you cut yourself, a mass migration begins inside your body: Skin cells flood by the thousands toward the site ...

If national guidelines are revised to incorporate a new risk equation, about 40% fewer people could meet criteria for cholesterol-lowering statins to prevent heart disease, according to a study by ...