The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is recommending that doctors consider many more people to be at risk of heart disease, stroke or peripheral arterial disease.
These conditions, collectively known as cardiovascular disease (CVD), cause one-in-three of all deaths in the UK. Draft guidance recommends that the threshold for starting preventive treatment of these conditions should be, from a 20% risk of developing CVD over 10 years, to a 10% risk.