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Recent Updates in Heart Health


Medical Conditions

The most common complication of diabetes is heart failure. American Diabetes Association’s consensus statement, 2022.


COVID-19 may increase risk for high cholesterol up to one year after infection. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, February 2023.


Depression and poor mental health may be associated with premature CVD in young people. Journal of the American Heart Association, January 2023.

Lifestyle

Higher intake of added sugars is associated with increased risk of CVD. BMC Medicine study, February 2023.


Irregular sleep is associated with increased atherosclerosis in US adults. Journal of the American Heart Association, February 2023.

Environment & Social Factors

Increased summer temperatures and air pollution are associated with cardiovascular disease. Learn more through the Million Hearts Climate Change and Cardiovascular Disease Collaboration.


Social isolation and loneliness may indicate a higher risk of heart failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February 2023.

Upcoming Educational Sessions & Events

National Center for Farmworker Health & the AHA:

Self-Management: Road Map Towards Blood Pressure Control

March 2 | 2:00 PM Eastern

Learn more and register! 



Million Hearts Learning Session: Using Bi-Directional Text Messaging to Engage Patients in Chronic Disease Management

March 15 | 3:00 PM Eastern

Register today!

Earn up to 1.0 CME

credit for attendance.

Clinical Resources

A Guide from the CDC

The Best Practices for Heart Disease and Stroke: A Guide to Effective Approaches and Strategies, released by the CDC, includes 18 evidence-based strategies for clinicians, decision makers, and others interested in implementing effective public health strategies to improve cardiovascular and cerebrovascular health.


Tools from Million Hearts

Check out these tip sheets for evidence-based content about blood pressure and cholesterol management.


CVD and Pregnancy

View this patient safety bundle on Cardiac Conditions in Obstetric Care. Provided by the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health, the information guides best practices for making birth safer.

Patient Education Resources

Small Steps to Heart-Health

Pulse Check is an interactive roadmap that lets users customize their own small steps for heart-healthy living. Participants can explore helpful tips, content, and quizzes to boost their knowledge and earn points and badges along the way. The tool is produced by CDC and Million Hearts.


Information on Statins

NACHC provides easy-to-understand, patient-centered educational tools on statins.

  • How Do Statins Prevent Heart Attacks and Strokes: Patient Education Animation English | Spanish
  • Statins and Lifestyle: Patient Education Infographic English | Spanish

Additional Upcoming Webinars

HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Key Populations ECHO Series

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 | 4:00 PM Eastern

Looking for ways to improve care for patients with HIV, viral hepatitis, substance use disorder, and other challenges specific to Key Populations?


Join our 2023 Weitzman ECHO Key Populations series to learn how to:  

  • Choose, monitor and switch HIV medication regimens including using and interpreting resistance testing
  • Assess and manage substance abuse co-morbidities in patients with HCV and HIV
  • Educate and counsel patients and staff on primary HIV prevention
  • Provide LGBT-focused care and individualized care to vulnerable patient populations  


The information session will review the ECHO model, didactic topics, benefits for your organization, CME credits, and how to register for this free program. For more information, please contact Anna Rogers at RogersA@chc1.com


Register for the information session here >>>

  


Updated Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs During Pregnancy and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV Transmission in the U.S.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023 | 2:00 PM Eastern

The Panel on Treatment of HIV in Pregnancy and Prevention of Perinatal Transmission recently published updated Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs During Pregnancy and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission in the United States.


An overview of revisions are now described on the NIH clinical information website in What’s New in the Guidelines.


Register here >>>



New PACT Health Benefits for Veterans Webinar

Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | 2:00 PM Eastern

This national audience webinar will provide health center administrators and provider teams with the most recent information regarding new health and service benefits passed by Congress in 2022, to be implemented by the US Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Specifically, the PACT webinar will explain the toxic exposure criterion and how health centers can screen and/or refer Military Veterans for the new benefits they've earned and deserve. The goal is to raise awareness about these new benefits critical to supporting Veterans and their families facing health issues due to toxic exposure during military Service.


Intended Audience: Health Center, PCA, and HCCN C-Suite Clinicians, Operations Directors, and Staff, and Enabling Services Staff


Register here >>>

Funding Opportunities

Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH)

This program aims to improve health, prevent chronic diseases, and reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest risk of chronic disease. Local, culturally tailored REACH programs work specifically among African American, Black, Hispanic, Latino, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander, American Indian, and Alaska Native populations. 


View more information here >>>


CDC will host an informational call for potential applicants on February 22, 2023 at 3:00 PM Eastern.

Join the meeting here >>>

Meeting ID: 161 928 4823

Passcode: 7NniXR4^


Applications are due April 11, 2023.



HHS Advancing Equity Through Teen Pregnancy Prevention 

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) will make 70 awards, each ranging between $350,000 and $2 million, for projects that use evidence-based interventions to teenaged pregnancy. Funds will be targeted to communities and populations with greatest need.


View more information here >>>


Applications are due April 18, 2023 by 6:00 PM Eastern.



Pilot Interventions to Integrate Social Care and Medical Care

to Improve Health Equity

This NIDDK Funding Opportunity Announcement will support pilot and feasibility trials to test interventions that involve screening for and addressing adverse social determinants of health during a health care visit. Patients' endorsed social needs could be addressed by appropriately referring/navigating patients or caregivers to resources that address these issues at social service organizations located externally or co-located in the healthcare system.


The overarching goal of this FOA is to develop pragmatic approaches that can be used in health care settings to reduce health disparities in diseases within the mission of NIDDK and achieve health equity, especially among individuals from racial and ethnic minority groups, rural populations, sexual and gender minority groups, and other socioeconomically disadvantaged and medically underserved communities.


View more information here >>>


Applications are due October 19, 2023.

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