Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Only half of major CV guideline documents mention shared decision-making as part of clinical practice. More ...

Sparked by a new study that once again finds serious flaws in the cardiovascular risk calculator at the heart of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association cardiovascular guidelines ...

The new guidelines reinforce many of the same messages from previous guidelines, but also represent a sharp change in philosophy. That change is most evident in the new lipid guidelines, in which the ...

Between February 11 and 17, 2014, Medscape invited primary care physicians (PCPs) and cardiologists to participate in an online survey asking for their reaction to the new cardiovascular (CV) risk ...

A relative paucity of evidence guiding the use of statin therapy in the primary prevention of atherosclerotic CVD events has led to disparate treatment strategies recommended by various medical ...

SAN DIEGO — The recent results of large outcomes trials showing cardiovascular benefit with type 2 diabetes drugs must be properly incorporated into treatment guidelines, such as those issued by the ...

BARCELONA, Spain—The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has issued new guidelines for the cardiovascular assessment and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. The guidelines, which ...

The joint guidelines from the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association call on clinicians to pay more attention to social determinants of health. They were announced Sunday at ...

An examination of clinical practice guidelines for treating cardiovascular disease finds that current recommendations are largely based on lower levels of evidence or expert opinion. An examination of ...