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Experts' Perspectives: How Lacking Clinical Trial Diversity Impacts Public Health

HCPLive

This article serves as a landing page for our 3-part series spotlighting how a lack of diversity in clinical trials has had a deleterious downstream effect on real-world care for people of color in the US, with perspective from experts across more than half a dozen specialties.

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Ultra-processed foods and cardiovascular disease

Nature Reviews - Cardiology

Nature Reviews Cardiology, Published online: 30 January 2024; doi:10.1038/s41569-024-00990-7 In this Comment, we critically examine the association between the increasing consumption of ultra-processed foods and their negative effect on cardiovascular health.

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Metals in the body from pollutants associated with progression of harmful plaque buildup in the arteries

Medical Xpress - Cardiology

Metal exposure from environmental pollution is associated with increased buildup of calcium in the coronary arteries at a level that is comparable to traditional risk factors like smoking and diabetes, according to a study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.

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Mortality rate of percutaneous coronary interventions in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients under the public health insurance schemes of Thailand

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

This study aims to compare mortality rates within one year of STEMI patients among the public health insurance schemes of Thailand.MethodologyThis study is a single-center retrospective analysis of patients with STEMI treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI).

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Report highlights public health impact of serious harms from diagnostic error in US

Science Daily - Stroke

Improving diagnosis in health care is a moral, professional and public health imperative, according to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. However, little is known about the full scope of harms related to medical misdiagnosis -- current estimates range widely.

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Melanoma Screening Delays During Lockdowns Linked to Deaths, Significant Economic Cost

HCPLive

This analysis emphasizes the necessity of prevention of melanoma as well as the public health and economic consequences of patients’ delaying of skin cancer diagnoses.

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Is Your Patient Married? Check Their Spouse's Blood Pressure, Too

Med Page Today

and worldwide, presents significant public health challenges. Globally, many health systems are individual-focused. This means that health. (MedPage Today) -- Hypertension, the leading cause of death from heart disease and stroke both in the U.S.