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Such assessments should only be starting points for predicting risk, researcher explains

By Amy Norton
HealthDay Reporter

The various “calculators” that doctors use to estimate patients’ odds of future heart trouble often overestimate the risks, a new study suggests.

Researchers found that four of five widely used formulas may overestimate people’s risk of heart attack, stroke or other related complications by as much as 154 percent in some cases.

That includes the most recently developed risk calculator, unveiled alongside new treatment guidelines in 2013 by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA).

However, the findings do not mean the calculators …read more

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