These ‘polygenic risk scores’ can help personalize preventive measures and could soon become part of routine healthcare practice, once some limitations are overcome. The concept of a polygenic ...

A new CT-scan-based risk score facilitates the identification of patients at risk of revision endoscopic sinus surgery due to ...

Patients are categorized as low-, intermediate- or high-risk. Low risk (score > 5) indicates a 5-year survival of 97%. Intermediate risk (score between 4 and -11) indicates 5-year survival of 90%.

The Pediatric Risk of Mortality is a physiologically based score used to quantify physiologic status, and when combined with other independent variables, it can compute expected mortality risk and ...

A risk-assessment tool incorporating NT-proBNP and high-sensitivity troponin performs better than clinical scores for predicting stroke among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who are taking oral ...

A new CT-scan based risk score facilitates the identification of patients at risk of revision endoscopic sinus surgery due to chronic rhinosinusitis.