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Coronary Artery Disease

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Mental Illness, Access to Hospitals with Invasive Cardiac Services, and Receipt of Cardiac Procedures by Medicare Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients

Mental illness was associated with reduced cardiac procedure use within each type of admitting hospital (with on-site invasive cardiac services or not).

Dec 3, 2020
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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
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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
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
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Education and Coronary Heart Disease Risk: Potential Mechanisms Such as Literacy, Perceived Constraints, and Depressive Symptoms

Education is inversely associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk; however the mechanisms are poorly understood.

Dec 31, 2014
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
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
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
Journal Article

Patient Sharing Among Physicians and Costs of Care: A Network Analytic Approach to Care Coordination Using Claims Data

Patients treated by sets of physicians who share high numbers of patients tend to have lower costs.

Mar 1, 2013
Journal Article

Quantifying the Value of Personalized Medicines: Evidence from COX-2 Inhibitors

Developing a conceptual framework for estimating the value of personalized medicines shows two sources of value: a market-expansion effect, and a market-contraction effect due to discontinuation of treatment by persons unresponsive to treatment.

Jan 1, 2013
Journal Article

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.

Jan 1, 2013
Journal Article

Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors: What Impact Do Neighborhoods Have?

Neighborhood socioeconomic status is significantly associated with coronary heart disease risk, according to a nationally-representative sample. The association is larger in men than women and in whites than minorities.

Oct 1, 2012
Journal Article

Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Venous Thromboembolism in the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trials

There is little evidence of an association between short- or long-term exposure to particulate matter air pollution and venous thromboembolism; and no evidence that hormone therapy is modifing such a link.

Mar 2, 2011
Journal Article

General Cardiovascular Risk Profile Identifies Advanced Coronary Artery Calcium and Is Improved by Family History: The Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

The research goal was to assess the ability of the General Cardiovascular Risk Profile to identify individuals with advanced coronary artery calcification, and determine whether identification is improved with family history.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

Literacy Skills and Calculated 10-Year Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

Skills in reading, listing and numeracy may affect the risk of coronary heart disease.

Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article

Appropriateness Criteria for Coronary Angiography in Angina: Reliability and Validity

Evaluated criteria for tailoring the decision to perform coronary angiography in specific clinical scenarios are lacking. Appropriateness scores offer prognostically valid criteria for judging which specific patients might benefit from coronary angiography. Patient-specific appropriateness scores help pinpoint areas where judgments diverge and are a promising tool for making guidelines more effective.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

Relation of Familial Patterns of Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes to Subclinical Atherosclerosis: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

Investigate the possibility that family history beyond early-onset coronary heart disease might contribute to coronary heart disease susceptibility, the authors studied associations between additional family history and the coronary artery calcium score.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

Are High-Quality Cardiac Surgeons Less Likely to Operate on High-Risk Patients Compared to Low-Quality Surgeons? Evidence from New York State

Finds that high-risk coronary artery bypass graft patients are significantly more likely to receive care from high-quality surgeons compared with lower-risk patients.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

Haplotypes in the Lipoprotein Lipase Gene Influence High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Response to Statin Therapy and Progression of Atherosclerosis in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts

Lipoprotein lipase hydrolyzes circulating triglycerides. 3'-end haplotypes in the LPL gene influence atherosclerosis and insulin resistance.

Feb 1, 2007

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