American Heart Association
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Doctors and African-American communities are obligated to learn more about heart valve disease and the lifesaving procedures available to treat it, according to a report from the Association of Black Cardiologists.
“It is incumbent upon us as health care providers [to] do a better job educating […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
African-American adults who smoke are at higher risk of being hospitalized with heart failure than those who used to smoke or have never smoked, a new study shows.
For people who smoke, the results “should add more fuel to the discussion” about quitting, said the study’s […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Ryan Dunn said he always noticed a common issue as a social entrepreneur helping children in Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina: Sugar was everywhere but healthy options were scarce.
“You see these kids going to school every day with a [soda and candy] bar and then […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
While heart disease and stroke — and deaths from those diseases — have declined in the United States in recent decades, those advances have not been shared equally in the African-American community. A panel of experts has been trying to find out why.
The result is […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
As the Great Recession left the U.S. economy in turmoil, the financial crisis also delivered a blow to the health of African-American teens, a new study finds.
The risk of metabolic syndrome, a common cluster of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, was found to be […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Montoya Taylor, M.D., attended medical school at Brown University in the mid-2000s and heard a lot about an influential study in the small town of Framingham, Massachusetts. Now spanning three generations of mostly white participants, the Framingham Heart Study is largely responsible for the current […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
The rate of hospitalizations due to heart failure has decreased overall in the United States, but black Americans are admitted at a higher rate than other ethnic and racial groups, according to a new study.
In general, the findings are good news because they show fewer […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Small health improvements were associated with lower risk of developing high blood pressure for African-Americans, according to new research released Monday.
African-Americans who had at least two modifiable healthy behaviors at the beginning of the study, compared to those with one or none, saw their high blood […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
HOUSTON — Neurologists from the United States and Africa are meeting Thursday to explore the differences and similarities in stroke among Africans and African-Americans.
“We need to learn more about what is happening in native African populations and begin to compare and contrast the findings with populations […]
By AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION NEWS
Caregivers of black stroke survivors spend more time helping and have a more positive perception of caregiving than those who care for whites, according to new research.
“Our findings surprised me,” said Lesli Skolarus, M.D., associate professor of neurology at the University of Michigan in Ann […]
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