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Trends in cardiovascular complications of pregnancy: A nationwide inpatient sample analysis
CONCLUSION: There are concerning increases in certain cardiac complications during pregnancy. This is likely due to increasing age at the time of pregnancy and associated comorbidities.PMID:37678669 | DOI:10.1016/j.amjms.2023.09.001
Source: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - September 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Eric D Warner Saaniya Farhan Matthew Bierowski Farhan Sahawneh Estefania Oliveros Preethi Pirlamarla Stefanie Marek-Iannucci Bhavadharini Ramu Waqas Ullah Yevgeniy Brailovsky Indranee N Rajapreyar Source Type: research

Trends in cardiovascular complications of pregnancy: A Nationwide Inpatient Sample analysis: Trends in cardiovascular complications of pregnancy
CONCLUSION: There are concerning increases in certain cardiac complications during pregnancy. This is likely due to increasing age at the time of pregnancy and associated comorbidities.PMID:37678669 | DOI:10.1016/j.amjms.2023.09.001
Source: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - September 7, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Eric D Warner Saaniya Farhan Matthew Bierowski Farhan Sahawneh Estefania Oliveros Preethi Pirlamarla Stefanie Marek-Iannucci Bhavadharini Ramu Waqas Ullah Yevgeniy Brailovsky Indranee N Rajapreyar Source Type: research

Structural racism and racial health disparities at the state level: A latent variable approach
Conclusions This research provides further evidence that structural racism is a fundamental cause of racial health disparities and that to repair these inequities, macro-level changes in societal structures, institutions, resource allocation, representation, and power will be necessary.PMID:37500328 | DOI:10.1016/j.jnma.2023.07.003
Source: Journal of the National Medical Association - July 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Michael Siegel Madeline Rieders Hannah Rieders Jinan Moumneh Julia Asfour Jinseo Oh Seungjin Oh Source Type: research

Young Americans Face Rising Rates of Obesity, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes
MONDAY, March 6, 2023 -- Young adults in the United States carry an increasing burden of heart health risk factors, making it more likely they’ll suffer a heart attack and stroke as they age, a new study warns. More adults ages 20 to 44 are...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - March 6, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Deprescribing Antihypertensive Medications for Patients Aged 80 or Older
The treatment of hypertension in older adults is a major public health concern. Among the nearly 13 million persons in the United States aged 80 years or older, approximately 80% have high blood pressure (BP). Hypertension is the most potent modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease in older adults and has been strongly associated with stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure, peripheral artery disease, kidney failure, and dementia. Thus, defining optimal strategies for managing elevated BP in older individuals is a high priority.
Source: JAMA - May 26, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Trends in Cardiometabolic Mortality in the United States, 1999-2017
This study evaluates the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ’s Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research to compare trends in heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and hypertension mortality rates by race and sex from 1999 to 2017.
Source: JAMA - August 27, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research

Protocol for project IMPACT (improving millions hearts for provider and community transformation): a quasi-experimental evaluation of an integrated electronic health record and community health worker intervention study to improve hypertension management among South Asian patients
The Million Hearts ® initiative aims to prevent heart disease and stroke in the United States by mobilizing public and private sectors around a core set of objectives, with particular attention on improving blo...
Source: BMC Health Services Research - December 6, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Priscilla M. Lopez, Jennifer Zanowiak, Keith Goldfeld, Katarzyna Wyka, Ahmad Masoud, Susan Beane, Rashi Kumar, Phoebe Laughlin, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Lorna Thorpe and Nadia Islam Tags: Study protocol Source Type: research