Health Disparities

This channel contains news that outline disparities in healthcare among some populations and technologies content that may help overcome or reduce these disparities.

Women and Lower-Income Patients have Higher Rates of Death after Heart Surgeries
April 25, 2022 – Advancements in techniques and treatment have transformed care for patients with cardiovascular disease over the last decade, and national and state-wide initiatives have been put in ...
Study Shows Link Between Socioeconomic Deprivation and Premature Cardiovascular Mortality
March 31, 2022 – People living in socially-deprived areas of the United States are more likely to die prematurely from cardiovascular (CV) complications according to new research published recently in ...
TAVR Access is Inequitable Based Socioeconomics Level and Geography
April 30, 2021 – An analysis of growth patterns in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) programs across United States hospitals is being presented as late-breaking clinical science at the ...
5 Technologies to Help Overcome Healthcare Disparities in the Next Decade
There is a lot of talk about health disparities between the insured vs. uninsured, low-income vs. higher-income, rural vs. urban residents, and developed vs. developing world. In developed countries ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) has announced it is providing $450,000 in grants to assess its new risk prediction tool among diverse race, age, geographic and socioeconomic groups.

News | AHA

American Heart Association Announces New Scientific Research Will Test PREVENT Risk Calculator Among Diverse Groups

February 8, 2024 — The American Heart Association (AHA), currently celebrating its centennial year, announced that it is ...

February 08, 2024

News | TCT

New Study Reveals Inequities in Access to Mechanical Circulatory Support in US Patients with Cardiogenic Shock

October 26, 2023 — A new study presented at TCT 2023 revealed inequities in access to mechanical circulatory support in ...

October 25, 2023

A study to better understand the association between Lipoprotein(a), Lp(a) levels and artherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) in an underrepresented population has been announced by Amgen, which will be working with the Association of Black Cardiologists and the Morehouse School of Medicine on the African American Heart Study.

News | Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

African American Heart Study Announced by Amgen, in Collaboration with Association of Black Cardiologists and Morehouse School of Medicine

March 8, 2023 — A unique community-based partnership, the African American Heart Study, will be conducted to measure the ...

March 08, 2023

Advancements in techniques and treatment have transformed care for patients with cardiovascular disease over the last decade, and national and state-wide initiatives have been put in place to help close disparity gaps and improve treatment for all patients.

News | Womens Cardiovascular Health

Women and Lower-Income Patients have Higher Rates of Death after Heart Surgeries

April 25, 2022 – Advancements in techniques and treatment have transformed care for patients with cardiovascular disease ...

April 25, 2022

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

News | Population Health

Study Shows Link Between Socioeconomic Deprivation and Premature Cardiovascular Mortality

March 31, 2022 – People living in socially-deprived areas of the United States are more likely to die prematurely from ...

March 31, 2022

Mark Butler, Ph.D., is the principal investigator on the new trial using smart prescription bottles. Photo by Feinstein Institutes)

News | Pharmaceuticals

Smart Prescription Bottles Trial Looks at Reducing Cardiovascular Disease in Black Community

January 5, 2022 — The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the science arm of Northwell Health, recently received ...

January 05, 2022

People in the U.S. who live in socially vulnerable neighborhoods, which includes communities with higher rates of poverty, crowded living situations and/or a higher proportion of people from diverse racial and ethnic groups, had higher rates of death and cardiac events such as a heart attack or stroke when hospitalized with COVID-19, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions 2021. #AHA21 #AHA

News | Coronavirus (COVID-19)

People Hospitalized With COVID-19 From Poor Neighborhoods Had Higher Rate of Heart Events

November 17, 2021 — People in the U.S. who live in socially vulnerable neighborhoods, which includes communities with ...

November 17, 2021

The two FDA-clear transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) valves on the market, the Edwards Lifesciences Sapien 3 (left) and the Medtronic CoreValve (right).

Feature | Structural Heart

TAVR Access is Inequitable Based Socioeconomics Level and Geography

April 30, 2021 – An analysis of growth patterns in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) programs across United ...

April 30, 2021

New study demonstrates depression, HIV, mental health, obesity, alcohol and drug abuse are risk factors on most common type of heart disease in young black patients. Photo by Dave Fornell

News | Cath Lab

Young African Americans With Coronary Disease Impacted by Non-traditional Risk Factors

April 29, 2021 – A retrospective analysis of risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) in young African American ...

April 29, 2021

Racism and heart disease. This study looks at heart failure patients and the impact of socioeconomic disparities associate with epigenetics. The study looks to overcome preconcieved ideas about race in cardiac studies by looking at underlaying causes for the disease. Image courtesy of the American Journal of Physiology

News | Heart Failure

Socioeconomic Disparities Associate With Epigenetics and Heart Failure Outcomes

April 26, 2021 – Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the United States. Heart failure disproportio ...

April 26, 2021

Two examples of hand-held, point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) being used to get immediate medical imaging information from patients in underserved areas. Left, a Butterfly Network system using an probe and an app turns a smartphone into an ultrasound system to image a patient at a remote African clinic. Right, a GE vScan being used to image patients in a rural community in Indian as part of an American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) outreach program.

Feature | Health Disparities | By Dave Fornell, Editor

5 Technologies to Help Overcome Healthcare Disparities in the Next Decade

There is a lot of talk about health disparities between the insured vs. uninsured, low-income vs. higher-income, rural ...

February 11, 2021

A study of more than 100 million Americans in 3,123 counties found a correlation between cardiac death and their level of income. Getty Images Health disparities in cardiovascular disease.

News | Cardiac Diagnostics

Link Shown Between Economic Disparities and Cardiovascular Death in Middle-Aged Adults

February 2, 2021 — A new study has found in the U.S. shows higher economic prosperity was associated with a small ...

February 02, 2021