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Research supported by the National Institutes of Health shows that cardiovascular-related deaths have declined over the past two decades, but disparities remain.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Higher sleep scores were associated with lower mortality hazard, according to a study presented at the SLEEP 2022 meeting. Joon Chung, PhD, a research fellow in the division of sleep medicine at Harvard Medical School, shared results on multidimensional sleep health from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), an ethnically diverse prospective cohort study.
This study aimed to identify the sex differences in carotid plaques development and carotid plaques burden in both sexes in this population.
This individual-level data analysis assesses whether estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equations with and without race and cystatin C document racial
Low socioeconomic status (SES) and living in a disadvantaged neighborhood are associated with poor cardiovascular health. Multiple lines of evidence have linked DNA methylation to both cardiovascular risk factors and social disadvantage indicators. However, limited research has investigated the role of DNA methylation in mediating the associations of individual- and neighborhood-level disadvantage with multiple cardiovascular risk factors in large, multi-ethnic, population-based cohorts. We examined whether disadvantage at the individual level (childhood and adult SES) and neighborhood level (...