Ischemic Heart Disease

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Apr 17, 2024

The Segregation of Physician Networks Providing Care to Black and White Patients with Heart Disease: Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Evaluation

Black-White disparities in cardiac care may be related to physician referral network segregation. We developed and tested new geographic physician network segregation measures.
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Dec 16, 2020

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Outcomes in Older Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Long-term outcomes of acute ischemic stroke vary by race/ethnicity among older patients with AIS.
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Jun 25, 2019

Vitality Age with pre-existing conditions

The Vitality Age with pre-existing conditions (VAPC) is an extension to VA.3, allowing explicit differentiation between individuals with one or more selected pre-existing conditions that negatively affect their health and life expectancy.
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Nov 17, 2016

Calcium Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Calcium intake from foods or supplements at levels within recommended ranges is not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease among healthy adults.
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Oct 18, 2016

Impact of Incident Diabetes on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease According to Statin Use History Among Postmenopausal Women

Regardless of statin use, postmenopausal women with new-onset diabetes had a significantly increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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Aug 28, 2014

Causal Inference Using Mixture Models: A Word of Caution

Mixture models are useful for monitoring the behavior of data and for offering comparisons to supplemental data, especially in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity, but one should be highly cautious when drawing causal inferences as to which population each component of the fitted mixture model represents.
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Dec 1, 2013

Mortality Among High-Risk Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Admitted to U.S. Teaching-Intensive Hospitals in July: A Retrospective Observational Study

High-risk acute myocardial infarction patients experience similar mortality in teaching- and non–teaching-intensive hospitals in July, but lower mortality in teaching-intensive hospitals in May.
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Oct 1, 2013

Substantial Health and Economic Returns from Delayed Aging May Warrant a New Focus for Medical Research

Greater investment in research to delay aging appears to be a highly efficient way to forestall disease, extend healthy life, and improve public health.
Press

Jul 9, 2013

Growth of Cardiac Services Tied to Competition, Not Improving Patient Care

New interventional cardiac catheterization services offered by U.S. hospitals generally duplicate existing programs and do not help patients gain access to timely emergency cardiac care. Instead, the focus has been on competing with other hospitals.
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Mar 1, 2013

Patient Sharing Among Physicians and Costs of Care: A Network Analytic Approach to Care Coordination Using Claims Data

Patients treated by sets of physicians who share high numbers of patients tend to have lower costs.
Research

Jan 1, 2013

Evidence of Systematic Duplication by New Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Programs

New PCI programs were systematically duplicative of existing programs and did not help patients gain access to timely PCI.
Research

Jul 1, 2010

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Emergency Department Management of Acute Heart Failure: Research Challenges and Opportunities

This paper presents research recommendations from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on emergency department management of acute heart failure.

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The Segregation of Physician Networks Providing Care to Black and White Patients with Heart Disease: Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Evaluation

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Outcomes in Older Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Vitality Age with pre-existing conditions

Calcium Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Impact of Incident Diabetes on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease According to Statin Use History Among Postmenopausal Women

Causal Inference Using Mixture Models: A Word of Caution

Mortality Among High-Risk Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Admitted to U.S. Teaching-Intensive Hospitals in July: A Retrospective Observational Study

Substantial Health and Economic Returns from Delayed Aging May Warrant a New Focus for Medical Research

Growth of Cardiac Services Tied to Competition, Not Improving Patient Care

Patient Sharing Among Physicians and Costs of Care: A Network Analytic Approach to Care Coordination Using Claims Data

Evidence of Systematic Duplication by New Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Programs

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Emergency Department Management of Acute Heart Failure: Research Challenges and Opportunities

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The Segregation of Physician Networks Providing Care to Black and White Patients with Heart Disease: Concepts, Measures, and Empirical Evaluation

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Outcomes in Older Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke

Vitality Age with pre-existing conditions

Calcium Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Impact of Incident Diabetes on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease According to Statin Use History Among Postmenopausal Women

Causal Inference Using Mixture Models: A Word of Caution

Mortality Among High-Risk Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Admitted to U.S. Teaching-Intensive Hospitals in July: A Retrospective Observational Study

Substantial Health and Economic Returns from Delayed Aging May Warrant a New Focus for Medical Research

Growth of Cardiac Services Tied to Competition, Not Improving Patient Care

Patient Sharing Among Physicians and Costs of Care: A Network Analytic Approach to Care Coordination Using Claims Data

Evidence of Systematic Duplication by New Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Programs

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Emergency Department Management of Acute Heart Failure: Research Challenges and Opportunities

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