31/08/2026
I will die on this hill: ten-year cardiovascular risk scores are a waste of time.
A new study just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, presented this week at the European Society of Cardiology, backs me up. Over 93% of women are classed as “low risk” from age 18 to 70. Despite cardiovascular disease being the number one cause of death worldwide.
Here’s the part that should worry you more: by your 60s, nine out of ten people already have plaque building in their arteries. Blockages. Already there. We’re not trying to find a needle in a haystack. The haystack is the problem.
We shouldn’t be spending our time scoring, testing, and reassuring people they’re “low risk” while disease quietly builds for decades. We should be preventing it early. Your 20s. Your 30s. Definitely your 40s.
If you want a doctor who works that way, that’s what we do at Coyne Medical.
Source: DOI 10.1056/NEJMoa2609059