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Local innovators awarded $75,000 to combat community health disparities

American Heart News - Heart News

7, 2024 — People of color in under-resourced communities have historically had less access to the most basic needs including healthy food, clean air and drinking water, quality education, employment, housing and health care affecting the. DALLAS, Nov.

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American Heart Association Announces New 2024-2025 National Volunteer Leaders

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I am excited as the organization moves into our second century and to embrace new and innovative strategies to expand our research and understanding of how we can ensure cardiovascular health and total health for all.” During our second century we will continue to make health equity a priority across the globe.

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Feature | Championing Change: Herman Taylor on Improving Heart Health For All

American College of Cardiology

"These are young, mostly African American leaders who will continue to emerge and assume leadership roles with a unique level of sophistication about the underpinnings of health disparities and health inequities," he notes. The Jackson Heart Study produced important science but is also producing important people."

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Advancing Health Equity in the Cardiovascular Device Life Cycle

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Despite advancements in diagnostics and therapeutics for cardiovascular disease, significant health disparities persist among patients from historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups, women, individuals who are socioeconomically under-resourced or underinsured, and those living in rural communities.

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Closing the Last Mile Gap in Access to Multimodality Imaging in Rural Settings: Design of the Imaging Core of the Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Study

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Achieving optimal cardiovascular health in rural populations can be challenging for several reasons including decreased access to care with limited availability of imaging modalities, specialist physicians, and other important health care team members.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress (CMHC) Announces Keynote Speaker for its 18th Annual Conference

Cardiometabolic Health Congress

Enrique Caballero, MD , will deliver the keynote speech, Screening for Social Determinants of Cardiometabolic Health and Practice Implications. Dr. Caballero is an endocrinologist, clinical investigator, and faculty director of International Innovation and Diabetes Education at Harvard Medical School.

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Groundbreaking Data in Interventional Cardiology to be Featured at Society for Cardiovascular Angiology and Interventions SCAI 2024 Scientific Sessions

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The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) kicks off its SCAI Scientific Sessions 2024 this week, May 2-4 in Long Beach, CA, bringing together more than 1,800 clinicians, scientists, researchers, and innovators in the field of interventional cardiology and endovascular medicine.