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Objective To evaluate the effect of chair placement on length of time physicians sit during a bedside consultation and patients’ satisfaction. Design Single center, double blind, randomized controlled deception trial. Setting County hospital in Texas, USA. Participants 51 hospitalist physicians providing direct care services, and 125 observed encounters of patients who could answer four orientation questions correctly before study entry, April 2022 to February 2023. Intervention Each patient encounter was randomized to either chair placement (≤3 feet (0.9 m) of patient’s bedside and faci...

The risk of heart failure in the present day was higher among Black adults who lived in U.S. zip codes historically impacted by redlining, according to research published today in the American Heart Association's flagship, peer-reviewed journal Circulation.

THURSDAY, Dec. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Being evicted can have a significant impact on a person's health, according to new research.

Mortality rates are higher in U.S. counties where eviction rates are also elevated, and this trend is strongest in areas with higher proportions of Black residents and women, UT Southwestern researchers found.

Study examines the links between wealth mobility and long-term cardiovascular health A new study by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital examines the associations between wealth mobility and long-term cardiovascular health. The multidisciplinary study borrowed methodology from the field of economics to analyze longitudinal changes in wealth. The team's results indicate that negative wealth mobility is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events, while positive wealth changes are associated with a decreased risk of cardiovascular events. Their results are published in...