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- Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity are leading causes of death in the U.S. Unhealthy diet contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths each year in the U.S., due to nutrition- and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes.1 In the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in adults, tripled in children, and quadrupled in adolescents. (author abstract)#…January 2023Diabetes, Heart disease, Obesity
- View and download maps on heart disease and stroke showing national data, health care costs, and social determinants of health data. (website description)September 2022Heart disease, Social Environment
- Women’s Health Research at Yale is changing science to address the health needs of women and improve outcomes for everyone. Recent work funded by The Community Foundation is developing heart disease treatment that accurately responds to the biology and experiences of women. (author abstract)December 2021Heart disease
- Many chronic health conditions are preventable, yet they are leading causes of death and disability in the United States. In addition, people with certain chronic health conditions are more likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID-19 than people without them. Poor diet is one prominent risk factor for chronic health conditions, alongside tobacco use, physical inactivity, and others. Numerous…August 2021Cancer, Diabetes, Heart disease
- One in seven people living in the US are immigrants, and this number has tripled since 1970. In this narrative review we focus on immigrants to the US, a particularly vulnerable population in which many adverse social determinants of health (SDOH) often cluster. Following The Lancet Commission on Migration and Health, we define immigrants as any person who has moved away from his/her habitual…March 2021Heart disease, Social/Structural Determinants
- The coronary artery calcium score plays an Important role In cardiovascular risk stratification, showing a significant association with the medium- or long-term occurrence of major cardiovascular events. Here, we discuss the following: protocols for the acquisition and quantification of the coronary artery calcium score by multidetector computed tomography; the role of the coronary artery calcium…June 2017Heart disease
- The USDA website also explains that making nutritious, affordable food more readily accessible in local grocery stores in disadvantaged communities where residents may not have a car is part of the Let's Move! initiative, launched by Michel Obama, which is dedicated to stopping childhood obesity within a generation, and the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, launched by the Obama administration,…April 2016Heart disease
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