In this issue of the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia , Cesena et al. determined the percentiles distribution of the 10-year Aatherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk according to age and gender, in a large Brazilian population, based on the ACC/AHA pooled cohort equations. They excluded patients at high or very high cardiovascular risk (e.g., those with known ASCVD, diabetes, severe hypercholesterolemia, chronic kidney disease, or people with ages outside the range of 40-75 years). The authors found many individuals at low […]