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This emphasis on short-term risk means the long-term consequences of modifiable risk factors may be overlooked. Age and male gender are currently the biggest drivers of risk, said Professor John Deanfield (Chair of JBS3 and British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiology at UCL, London) at a launch event for the JBS3 recommendations. Treatment has favoured elderly men, with risk calculators disenfranchising the young, especially women, he added. The report, which the British Cardiovascular Society calls “an evolution in CVD prevention,” supports intensive management of people at high lifetime risk for CVD. Its message that early inte