App Quickly Gauges Cardiovascular Risk in Patients With Diabetes
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Researchers in Italy have developed a Web-based app called AWARE, whereby clinicians can quickly stratify cardiovascular (CV) risk of patients with type 2 diabetes as moderate, high, or very high based on criteria from the 2019 European Society of Cardiology (ESC)/European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) guidelines on diabetes, prediabetes, and cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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@sasical In a feasibility study of more than 2000 patients seen at diabetes clinics, clinicians entered patient data into the app, which takes about 20 seconds. Based on the data, the app classified CV risk in the cohort as very high (72.2% of patients), high (9.9%), or moderate (0.8%). However, 18.2% of patients did not fit any of the risk categories and were deemed to have moderate to high CV risk.