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Proposed Risk Factor Tool Finds Heart Failure Rates are Higher Among American Indian Adults

DAIC

21, 2024 — The incidence rate of heart failure was 2- to 3-fold higher among American Indian populations than rates observed in studies focused on other population groups, such as African American, Hispanic or white adults, in a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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Adverse Social Determinants of Health Linked to Treatment-resistant Hypertension in Black Americans

DAIC

Apparent treatment-resistant hypertension is defined as the need to take three or more types of anti-high blood pressure medication daily and is associated with an increased risk for stroke , coronary heart disease , heart failure , and all-cause mortality. Over a period of 9.5 of white adults.

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Incentives Prompt Increased Daily Walking in Patients at Risk for Heart Disease

DAIC

Insights from behavioral economics can be applied in many other fields, including medicine and public health, Fanaroff said. Many studies have shown that people who engage in more physical activity are healthier and have fewer heart attacks and strokes than people who engage in less.

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COVID-19 myocarditis illusions

Dr. Anish Koka

Cardiac Cath labs waiting for some major influx of COVID heart damage not only didn’t see patients presenting with COVID heart attacks, but they idled as patients terrified of coming to the hospital stayed home rather than come to the hospital with chest pain. How bad was the heart failure reported?

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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Researchers Develop Universal Risk Predictor for Cardiovascular Disease

DAIC

Clinicians currently use two separate risk models to assess patients’ chances of having heart attacks , strokes , and other major cardiovascular events. The ARIC participants included some cases with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and some without.