The American Heart Association's (AHA) updated prevention guidelines for women outline a bold prescription for prevention of CVD that urges women to start early, with adoption of a healthy lifestyle, and sets new target goals for risk-assessment.
The guidelines, appearing online in the February 19 Rapid Access issue of Circulation, were presented by lead author, Lori Mosca, MD, of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York at an AHA media briefing.
The focus is on prevention, with the goal to widen the window of opportunity for women to fight their number 1 killer. "We want to prevent the risk factors," she stressed.
There are now 3 categories ("high risk," "at risk," and "optimal risk") instead of the 4 ("high," "intermediate," "lower," and "optimal") in the Framingham global risk model.
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