Reversing CVD trends requires focus on health equity, early interventions

PHILADELPHIA — CVD trends, particularly for HF, have gotten worse since 2011, and a way to address them may be to focus on health equity and begin prevention early, a speaker said at the Heart in Diabetes CME conference.
“Cardiovascular disease mortality rate declines have decelerated and reversed in certain subtypes such as heart failure, with persistent racial and ethnic disparities,” Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine, associate program director of the cardiovascular disease fellowship and director of research in

PHILADELPHIA — CVD trends, particularly for HF, have gotten worse since 2011, and a way to address them may be to focus on health equity and begin prevention early, a speaker said at the Heart in Diabetes CME conference.
“Cardiovascular disease mortality rate declines have decelerated and reversed in certain subtypes such as heart failure, with persistent racial and ethnic disparities,” Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FACC, FAHA, assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine, associate program director of the cardiovascular disease fellowship and director of research in