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American Heart Association Women-Themed Issue Rapid Access Journal Report: Prevention Guidelines Help Predict Women's Cardiovascular Risk

Published in Fitness and Wellness Business Week, March 3rd, 2010

A simplified strategy for assessing cardiovascular disease risk can predict women's odds of heart attack, stroke or other cardiovascular events in the following 10 years, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association.

The strategy, outlined in the 2007 update to the American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women, was tested using the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study. In the WHI, researchers followed an ethnically diverse population of 161,808 women, ages 50 to 79, for nearly eight years. Using known cardiovascular risk factors as recommended in the...

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