Weight/Obesity

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hidden New Resource to Identify Communities at High Risk for Severe Illness from COVID-19 and Increased Healthcare Utilization

New Resource to Identify Communities at High Risk for Severe Illness from COVID-19 and Increased Healthcare Utilization

Luis Macias

Author: Christina M. Shay, PhD, FAHA, Director, Impact and Health Metrics, American Heart Association

Preview: The Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation (CHME) has developed a data visualization resource to identify communities with population characteristics associated with high rates of severe COVID-19 illness, which can help pinpoint localities at high risk for increased use of healthcare services and increased resource needs.
hidden New Data Helps Measure, Map Poverty’s Connection With Heart Failure Deaths

New Data Helps Measure, Map Poverty’s Connection With Heart Failure Deaths

Sharlotte Vise

Authors: Mariell Jessup, M.D., FAHA; Chief Science and Medical Officer, American Heart Association; Kim Stitzel, M.S., R.D.; Senior Vice President, Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation, American Heart Association

Preview: Poverty level is a county’s strongest socioeconomic factor associated with dying from heart failure and coronary heart disease, according to new research in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

hidden Unexpected Finding: Army Personnel Less Likely Than Civilians to Have Ideal Heart Health

Unexpected Finding: Army Personnel Less Likely Than Civilians to Have Ideal Heart Health

Sharlotte Vise

Authors: Alice Shrestha, University of Pennsylvania; Tiffany E. Ho, University of Pennsylvania; Loryana Vie, University of Pennsylvania; Darwin R. Labarthe, Northwestern University; Lawrence M. Scheier, University of Pennsylvania; Paul B. Lester, Army Research Facilitation Laboratory; and Martin E.P. Seligman, University of Pennsylvania

Preview: Army personnel are less likely than civilians to have ideal heart health — even when excluding the least healthy members, according to a first-of-its kind study.
hidden What You Need to Know About the New Prevention Guidelines

What You Need to Know About the New Prevention Guidelines

Sharlotte Vise

Author: Penny M. Kris-Etherton, Distinguished Professor of Nutrition, The Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D., R.D.N., L.D.N., FAHA, FNLA, FASN, CLS

Preview: The most important way to prevent cardiovascular disease is through a healthy lifestyle throughout life. That’s a key message of new guidelines on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, released today by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

hidden For Rural U.S. Residents, More Is Often Less When It Comes to Health

For Rural U.S. Residents, More Is Often Less When It Comes to Health

Sharlotte Vise

Getting all Americans healthy — regardless of their race/ethnicity, income, education or geography — is a lofty goal. But our attention, our resources and, most importantly, our actions are needed now more than ever. Although obesity has historically hit upper socioeconomic classes obesity harder, that reality has changed. The previous effects of poverty — including
hidden Prevention Is Worth It

Prevention Is Worth It

Sharlotte Vise

Author: Eduardo Sanchez, M.D., M.P.H., Chief Medical Officer for Prevention and Chief of the Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation, American Heart Association

Preview: A better headline would have been “Preventive Care; Sometimes Good Things Cost Money.”

hidden CDC Weighs In With New Obesity Data; What’s Next?

CDC Weighs In With New Obesity Data; What’s Next?

Sharlotte Vise

Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for Prevention and Chief of the Center for Health Metrics and Evaluation, American Heart Association Obesity in adults 20 and older and youth 12 to 19 is at an all-time high — nearly 40 percent and 20 percent, respectively, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.