About The Study: The Million Hearts Model, which encouraged and paid health care organizations to assess and reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, reduced first-time heart attacks and strokes. The results support guidelines to use risk scores for CVD primary prevention.
Authors: Laura Blue, Ph.D., of Mathematica in Washington, D.C., is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jama.2023.19597)
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