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Recent changes to a heart transplant allocation policy improved waitlist outcomes for children born with heart defects and adults with cardiomyopathy, but not in children with cardiomyopathy or adults with heart defects, data show.In 2016, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network modified the heart transplant allocation policy for pediatric patients, which decreased priority for children
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Mashup Score: 1High genetically predicted LDL level tied to lower type 2 diabetes risk, elevated CAD risk - 19 hour(s) ago
High genetically predicted LDL was inversely associated with risk for incident diabetes, whereas the opposite trend was observed for CAD risk, researchers reported.“Individual genetic studies have yielded informative observations between LDL-C and type 2 diabetes,” Akshaya Ravi, an undergraduate researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues wrote.
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Mashup Score: 1High genetically predicted LDL level tied to lower type 2 diabetes risk, elevated CAD risk - 2 day(s) ago
High genetically predicted LDL was inversely associated with risk for incident diabetes, whereas the opposite trend was observed for CAD risk, researchers reported.“Individual genetic studies have yielded informative observations between LDL-C and type 2 diabetes,” Akshaya Ravi, an undergraduate researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and colleagues wrote.
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Mashup Score: 1Rural areas, regions outside of Northeast less likely to offer vital cardiac services - 2 day(s) ago
Rural hospitals were significantly less likely to provide essential cardiac services compared with hospitals in urban areas, according to a research letter published in Circulation.“Multiple factors contribute to the shortage of health care, especially cardiac services, in rural counties,” Gabriel A. Benavidez, PhD, an epidemiologist and assistant professor in the department of public
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Mashup Score: 1Rural areas, regions outside of Northeast less likely to offer vital cardiac services - 3 day(s) ago
Rural hospitals were significantly less likely to provide essential cardiac services compared with hospitals in urban areas, according to a research letter published in Circulation.“Multiple factors contribute to the shortage of health care, especially cardiac services, in rural counties,” Gabriel A. Benavidez, PhD, an epidemiologist and assistant professor in the department of public
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Mashup Score: 3Maintaining healthy behaviors in early life essential to preserving future heart health - 3 day(s) ago
Maintaining healthful behaviors may be key to improving the trajectory of heart health from early adolescence into adulthood, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.To identify the age at inflection points across childhood and sociodemographic factors associated with changes in CV health trajectory, Izzuddin M. Aris, PhD, assistant professor in the department of population
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Mashup Score: 3Maintaining healthy behaviors in early life essential to preserving future heart health - 3 day(s) ago
Maintaining healthful behaviors may be key to improving the trajectory of heart health from early adolescence into adulthood, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.To identify the age at inflection points across childhood and sociodemographic factors associated with changes in CV health trajectory, Izzuddin M. Aris, PhD, assistant professor in the department of population
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Mashup Score: 2Maintaining healthy behaviors in early life essential to preserving future heart health - 4 day(s) ago
Maintaining healthful behaviors may be key to improving the trajectory of heart health from early adolescence into adulthood, according to study findings published in JAMA Cardiology.To identify the age at inflection points across childhood and sociodemographic factors associated with changes in CV health trajectory, Izzuddin M. Aris, PhD, assistant professor in the department of population
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Exposure to high nighttime aircraft noise was tied to cardiac remodeling consistent with changes associated with increased risk for major adverse cardiac events, researchers reported.A U.K. study evaluating the association between aircraft noise exposure, cardiac remodeling and potential downstream cardiac events was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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A daily polypill was estimated to be cost-effective for primary CVD prevention among U.S. adults living in historically underserved communities with limited health care access and low income, researchers reported.The cost-effectiveness analysis was conducted in two simulated U.S. cohorts — one based on the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS) the other on all trial-eligible U.S. adults
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