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Cardiovascular Disorders

Journal Article

Randomized Controlled Trial of a Coordinated Care Intervention to Improve Risk Factor Control After Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack in the Safety Net: Secondary Stroke Prevention by Uniting Community and Chronic Care Model Teams Early to End Disparities (SUCCEED)

A multi-disciplinary intervention using a Chronic Care Model framework to prevent a secondary stroke among underserved populations will be tested in a randomized controlled trial.

Dec 12, 2017
Journal Article

Association Between Hospitals' Engagement in Value-Based Reforms and Readmission Reduction in the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program

Hospitals participating in one or more voluntary Medicare value-based reform programs were less likely to readmit patients within 30 days of discharge than non-participating hospitals.

May 23, 2017
Journal Article

Patient Perceptions of Integrated Care and Their Relationship to Utilization of Emergency, Inpatient and Outpatient Services

Patients who perceive their care to be integrated make less use of both emergency department and outpatient care.

Mar 14, 2017
Journal Article

Sleep-Wake Concordance in Couples Is Inversely Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk Markers

The degree to which couples are awake or asleep at the same time throughout the night affects nighttime blood pressure and systemic inflammation, two putative markers of cardiovascular disease.

Mar 14, 2017
Journal Article

Marital Conflict and Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping in Military Couples

Marital conflict among veterans and their partners may "blunt" the dip in blood pressure that normally occurs during the night, and this may lead to a higher risk of CVD.

Nov 28, 2016
Journal Article

Calcium Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Calcium intake from foods or supplements at levels within recommended ranges is not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease among healthy adults.

Nov 17, 2016
Journal Article

Impact of Incident Diabetes on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease According to Statin Use History Among Postmenopausal Women

Regardless of statin use, postmenopausal women with new-onset diabetes had a significantly increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Oct 18, 2016
Report

Improving Population Health Through an Innovative Collaborative: The Be There San Diego Data for Quality Group

The Be There San Diego Data for Quality (DFQ) Group created a safe venue for competing health care organizations in San Diego County to share performance data on quality-of-care measures, insights, lessons learned, and challenges they face.

Sep 26, 2016
Journal Article

Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and the Association Between Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease

Women living in disadvantaged neighborhoods may be more susceptible to air pollution-related health effects, but individual and neighborhood SES did not affect the positive association between long-term fine particulate matter and cardiovascular disease.

Sep 13, 2016
Journal Article

Populations and Interventions for Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review

This evidence review found that palliative care improves outcomes for cancer, dementia, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Sep 12, 2016
Journal Article

Training and Capacity Building in LMIC for Research in Heart and Lung Diseases: The NHLBI-UnitedHealth Global Health Centers of Excellence Program

A public-private partnership created a program to train and mentor early stage researchers who study of heart and lung diseases from 11 Centers of Excellence around the world.

May 25, 2016
Journal Article

The Future as a Series of Transitions: Qualitative Study of Heart Failure Patients and Their Informal Caregivers

Patients and caregivers view heart failure as a series of transitions, including the shock of first being diagnosed; learning to adjust to life with heart failure; reframing and taking back control of one's life; and understanding and accepting that death is inevitable.

May 1, 2016
Journal Article

Differences in Severity at Admission for Heart Failure Between Rural and Urban Patients: The Value of Adding Laboratory Results to Administrative Data

Laboratory test data provide insight on clinical severity and practice patterns with respect to treating heart failure beyond what is available in administrative discharge data.

Apr 29, 2016
Journal Article

Prospective Analysis of Health and Mortality Risk in Veteran and Non-Veteran Participants in the Women's Health Initiative

This large-scale study compares the long-term health outcomes and mortality risks among veteran and non-veteran participants of the Women's Health Initiative, a set of studies that looks for health risk associations in postmenopausal women.

Apr 28, 2016
Journal Article

Cost and Cost-Effectiveness of Students for Nutrition and Exercise (SNaX)

A middle school–based obesity-prevention intervention combining school-wide environmental changes, multimedia, encouragement to eat healthy cafeteria foods, and peer-led education, increased participation in school lunch programs and selection of fruit dishes, and reduced snack sales.

Apr 28, 2016
Journal Article

Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition–heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial

To evaluate the effectiveness of a care transition intervention using remote patient monitoring in reducing 180-day all-cause readmissions among a broad population of older adults hospitalized with HF.

Feb 18, 2016
Journal Article

The Relationship of Cardiovascular Disease to Physical Functioning in Women Surviving to Age 80 and Above in the Women's Health Initiative

Women's Health Initiative participants aged 80 years or older at the time of self-reporting PF (RAND SF-36) were studied in relationship to CVD diagnosis, whether present at study baseline (1993-1998) or diagnosed during follow-up through 2012.

Feb 9, 2016
Brochure

Spotlight on 2015

RAND Europe's annual review, Spotlight on 2015, illustrates how our work helps to improve people's lives through policymaking based on objective research and rigorous analysis.

Jan 26, 2016
Journal Article

Effectiveness of an mHealth Intervention to Improve the Cardiometabolic Profile of People with Prehypertension in Low-Resource Urban Settings in Latin America: A Randomised Controlled Trial

Mobile phone-based health interventions (mHealth) have been shown to help promote weight loss and increase physical activity and are an attractive approach for health-care systems with limited resources.

Jan 18, 2016
Journal Article

Challenges in the Use of Administrative Data for Heart Failure Services Research

This study examines the use of administrative data routinely collected when patients interact with the healthcare system.

Jan 18, 2016

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