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Cardiovascular Disorders

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A Step in the Right Direction: Exercising for Your Heart Health

Outlines the health benefits of increasing physical activity and reducing sedentary time and offers suggestions on how to make physical activity part of a daily routine.

Oct 17, 2014
Journal Article

Causal Inference Using Mixture Models: A Word of Caution

Mixture models are useful for monitoring the behavior of data and for offering comparisons to supplemental data, especially in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity, but one should be highly cautious when drawing causal inferences as to which population each component of the fitted mixture model represents.

Aug 28, 2014
Commentary

Should You Get Screened for Heart Disease?

Many think of cardiovascular disease (CVD) primarily as a male problem. But one in three adult women has some form of CVD, which has killed more American women than men every year since 1984. Cardiovascular risk assessments can help women understand their current risk and health behaviors.

Jul 24, 2014
Research Brief

Continuity of Care and the Cost of Treating Chronic Disease

Modest improvements in continuity of care correlate with sizable reductions in service use, complications, and costs for Medicare patients with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Jul 16, 2014
Journal Article

Pscanner: Patient-Centered Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research

This article describes the patient-centered Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research (pSCANNER), which is part of the recently formed PCORnet, a national network composed of learning healthcare systems and patient-powered research networks funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

Jul 1, 2014
Commentary

Have You Estimated Your Cardiovascular Risk?

Research suggests that setting a baseline by getting an estimate of your individual cardiovascular risk can help you see more clearly what you have at stake and what you can do to improve your chances of a long and healthy life.

Jun 26, 2014
Commentary

5 Steps to Decrease Your Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Five steps could help reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease, especially if you track your efforts: know your risk, increase physical activity, reduce sedentary time, improve nutrition, and get enough sleep.

Jun 11, 2014
Research Brief

Mapping Gender Gaps in Health Care

Mapping regional rates of cholesterol screening among patients with cardiovascular disease and diabetes reveals significant gender gaps: Women are often less likely to receive screenings.

Jun 11, 2014
Commentary

Assessing and Addressing Women's Health and Health Care

Women make up a majority of the U.S. population. Yet research policies and practices often treat women's health and health care as special topics or minority issues. The resulting knowledge gaps hamstring efforts to improve women's health care and outcomes even for cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death among women.

Mar 28, 2014
News Release

Improving Continuity of Care for Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases Cuts Costs and Complications

Among a large group of Medicare patients, even modest improvements in the continuity of care for those with diabetes, congestive heart failure, or emphysema were associated with sizable reductions in use of hospital emergency departments and hospitalizations.

Mar 17, 2014
Journal Article

Improving Continuity of Care for Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases Cuts Costs and Complications

Among a large group of Medicare patients, even modest improvements in the continuity of care for those with diabetes, congestive heart failure, or emphysema were associated with sizable reductions in use of hospital emergency departments and hospitalizations.

Mar 17, 2014
Commentary

Caring for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes, Why Gender Matters

High-quality routine care for both cardiovascular disease and diabetes is at least as relevant to women's health and survival as it is to men's. Yet evidence suggests that women continue to face gaps in even low-cost, routine aspects of care.

Feb 27, 2014
Commentary

Maintaining Health and Well-Being: A Shared Responsibility

Everyone should take the time to ask themselves what they can do to improve their health, and to support the health of friends, families, and communities. When it comes to good health, it takes a community.

Feb 20, 2014
Blog

Women's Heart Disease Awareness

Friday is National Wear Red Day, when people are asked to wear red to raise awareness about the health risks women face from heart disease. Too little attention is devoted to preventing heart disease in women and improving the quality and outcomes of their care.

Feb 5, 2014
Journal Article

Structural Stigma and All-Cause Mortality in Sexual Minority Populations

Although prior research has indicated that intrapersonal and interpersonal forms of stigma negatively affect the health of the stigmatized, few studies have addressed the health consequences of exposure to structural forms of stigma.

Feb 1, 2014
Journal Article

A Naturopathic Approach to the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Pragmatic Multi-Worksite Randomized Clinical Trail

A naturopathic approach to CVD primary prevention significantly reduced CVD risk over usual care plus biometric screening and reduced costs to society and employers in this multi-worksite—based study.

Feb 1, 2014
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Women's Heart Health: Research That Matters

The care that women receive for cardiovascular disease (CVD) lag behind those of men, despite the fact that more women have died from CVD each year for decades. Experts explain CVD within the context of women's health, outlining possible solutions for improving quality of care.

Jan 31, 2014
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Mapping Gender Differences in Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Care

The cardiovascular and diabetes-related care that women receive—and their relevant health outcomes—both lag behind those of men. This is true even for routine care, such as cholesterol monitoring and control. Awareness of this disparity is limited, in part, because quality of care is not routinely measured and reported by gender.

Jan 16, 2014
Journal Article

Understanding Factors Associated with the Translation of Cardiovascular Research: A Multinational Case Study Approach

We built an international consortium and developed a multinational case study approach to assess benefits arising from health research.

Jan 1, 2014
Journal Article

Association of Vascular Risk Factors with Cognition in a Multiethnic Sample

The authors examine the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) and cognitive performance in a multiethnic sample of older adults.

Jan 1, 2014

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