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Coronary Artery Disease

Journal Article
Evaluation of the Million Hearts® Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model: Final Evaluation Report
Presents findings from a test of the Million Hearts model for CMS through a large, randomized trial, including hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries across the United States of the Million Hearts model from 2017 to 2021.
Oct 20, 2023
Commentary
Advancing Women's Health Requires Better Evidence
For decades, advances in health and health care have had a bias toward the male body. By shifting the focus of research to women's bodies and building out this base of evidence on women's health, scientists and doctors can improve health outcomes and overall quality of life for women, all while also saving money.
Apr 10, 2023
Journal Article
Evaluation of the Million Hearts® Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model: Fourth Annual Report
In this model, CMS pays participating organizations for assessing each of their eligible Medicare beneficiary's risk of having a heart attack or stroke over the next 10 years and for reducing CVD risk among high-risk beneficiaries.
Oct 25, 2022
Journal Article
Evaluation of the Million Hearts® Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model: Third Annual Report
In its first three years, the Million Hearts® Model improved cardiovascular preventive care, but did not yet reduce observed heart attacks and strokes or lower Medicare spending.
Oct 25, 2022
Report
Investment in Women's Health Research Could Reap Large Societal Benefits
The potential gains from women-focused research are substantial, given the limitations in knowledge about disease development and impacts for women relative to men. Savings would include increased life years, fewer disruptions to work productivity, and fewer years with disease and functional dependence.
Oct 11, 2021
Report
The Impact of Funding Heart Disease Research Focused on Women
Physiological differences between men and women affect factors that relate to the development and progression of heart disease. Increasing investment in women's health research on coronary artery disease could yield considerable societal gains, including increased health-related quality of life and labor productivity.
Oct 11, 2021
Journal Article
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
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
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
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 1, 2011

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