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Cardiovascular Disorders

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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

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

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

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
Multimedia

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
Report

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

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

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
Journal Article

Journal Article

Mortality Among High-Risk Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Admitted to U.S. Teaching-Intensive Hospitals in July: A Retrospective Observational Study

High-risk acute myocardial infarction patients experience similar mortality in teaching- and non–teaching-intensive hospitals in July, but lower mortality in teaching-intensive hospitals in May.

Dec 1, 2013
Journal Article

Benefits of Slowing the Aging Process

Most medical research focuses on fighting individual disease. But delayed aging could boost life expectancy by more than two years and yield more than $7 trillion over 50 years. Greater investment in research to delay aging could be a very efficient way to prevent disease, improve public health, and extend healthy life.

Oct 1, 2013
Journal Article

Journal Article

Barriers and Facilitating Factors for Disease Self-Management: A Qualitative Analysis of Perceptions of Patients Receiving Care for Type 2 Diabetes And/Or Hypertension in San José, Costa Rica and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico

People living with type 2 diabetes and hypertension present different barriers and facilitating factors for disease self-management, in part based on their readiness-to-change and also due to the broader context in which they live.

Sep 1, 2013
News Release

News Release

Growth of Cardiac Services Tied to Competition, Not Improving Patient Care

New interventional cardiac catheterization services offered by U.S. hospitals generally duplicate existing programs and do not help patients gain access to timely emergency cardiac care. Instead, the focus has been on competing with other hospitals.

Jul 9, 2013
Commentary

Making Heart Disease a Women's Issue

When it comes to women's health, cancer gets a good deal of the attention; somehow, it hasn't fully registered that so many of our mothers, sisters, friends and daughters are being affected by another, often silent killer, writes Chloe E. Bird.

Mar 22, 2013
Commentary

Ruling Can Lead to Tougher New York Soda Ban

New York should see the judge's ruling as an opportunity to revise the law to close the loopholes, including the Big Gulp exemption, and develop regulations in line with the scientific consensus that even 16 ounces is way too much, writes Deborah Cohen.

Mar 13, 2013
Journal Article

The Relationship Between Urban Sprawl and Coronary Heart Disease in Women

Women living in more compact communities had a lower probability of experiencing a coronary heart disease (CHD) event or dying as a result of CHD.

Mar 1, 2013

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