In 2010, the American Heart Association defined a novel construct of cardiovascular health
to promote a paradigm shift from a focus solely on disease treatment to one inclusive of …

Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in patients with diabetes.
Cardiovascular disease in diabetes is multifactorial, and control of the cardiovascular risk …

Background: Transgender healthcare is a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. In the last
decade, there has been an unprecedented increase in the number and visibility of …

Importance Descriptive data have revealed significant racial/ethnic disparities in coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in the US, but underlying mechanisms of disparities remain …

Importance Hypertension, defined as persistent systolic blood pressure (SBP) at least 130
mm Hg or diastolic BP (DBP) at least 80 mm Hg, affects approximately 116 million adults in …

Structural racism has been and remains a fundamental cause of persistent health disparities
in the United States. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the police …

As clinicians delivering health care, we are very good at treating disease but often not as
good at treating the person. The focus of our attention has been on the specific physical …

Health care in the United States has seen many great innovations and successes in the past
decades. However, to this day, the color of a person's skin determines—to a considerable …

Much has been published in leading medical journals about the phenomenon of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The resulting condition …

Importance After decades of decline, the US cardiovascular disease mortality rate flattened
after 2010, and racial and ethnic differences in cardiovascular disease mortality persisted …