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Racial and Ethnic Differences in Presentation and Outcomes for Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: Findings from the American Heart Association's COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry.
Conclusions: Although in-hospital mortality and MACE did not differ by race/ethnicity after adjustment, Black and Hispanic patients bore a greater burden of mortality and morbidity due to their disproportionate representation among COVID-19 hospitalizations. PMID: 33200953 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Circulation - November 17, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Rodriguez F, Solomon N, de Lemos JA, Das SR, Morrow DA, Bradley SM, Elkind MSV, Williams Iv JH, Holmes D, Matsouaka RA, Gupta D, Gluckman TJ, Abdalla M, Albert MA, Yancy CW, Wang TY Tags: Circulation Source Type: research

Bariatric Surgery: "Roux"-minating on Endothelial Cell and HDL Function.
Abstract Obesity, defined as a body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m2, is pandemic. Though prevalence in the United States has plateaued at ~31% of adults (78 million), worldwide obesity rates continue to rise(1). Perhaps more concerning is the high level of childhood obesity: 16.9% in US and ~13% (and rising) in developing countries(2). Why the alarm? Longitudinal studies of overweight or obese individuals have identified a 20 fold increase in risk for developing diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2D) and 1.5 fold increase risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure(3, 4). As ob...
Source: Circulation - February 11, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Brown JD Tags: Circulation Source Type: research