American Heart Association’s Behavioral Roundtable for Preventable Disparities

Disparities in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations for Chronic Conditions Among Korean Americans, Hawaii, 2010–2012

INTRODUCTION Korean Americans are a growing but understudied population group in the United States. High rates of potentially preventable hospitalizations suggest that primary care is underutilized. We compared preventable hospitalizations for chronic conditions in aggregate and for congestive heart failure (CHF) for Korean Americans and whites in Hawaii. METHODS Discharge data from 2010 to 2...

The Contribution of Geography to Disparities in Preventable Hospitalisations between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

OBJECTIVES To quantify the independent roles of geography and Indigenous status in explaining disparities in Potentially Preventable Hospital (PPH) admissions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Analysis of linked hospital admission data for New South Wales (NSW), Australia, for the period July 1 2003 to June 30 2008. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Age...

Toward more optimal use of primary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: how do we get there?

The implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) has been shown in several randomized clinical trials to improve the survival of patients with systolic heart failure (HF).1–4 As a result, practice guidelines designate ICD therapy as a class I indication in many patients with HF.5–7 Notwithstanding the evidence from randomized clinical trials and practice guidelines, several studies have demonst...

Tackling heart disease at the global level: implications of the United Nations' statement on the prevention and control of noncommunicable disease.

Perceptions Are Everything Like many of us, I have spent more than a decade of my research career trying to persuade the lay public and, indeed, many health care workers and administrators, that cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its major component heart disease is a major burden to rival that of the common forms of cancer. The American Heart Association’s “Go Red for Women” campaign is indicati...

Late-Breaking Basic Science Abstracts From the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2016