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COVID-19 Professional Resources
The AHA is working to ensure optimal care for patients with cardiovascular disease who contract coronavirus (COVID-19). Patients with underlying cardiovascular diseases appear to have an increased risk for adverse outcomes with COVID-19. Here are some helpful resources for health systems, clinics, care providers, patients and the public.
Image link to Compassion amid crisis: Present, future, past AHA presidents awed by COVID-19 response
Compassion amid crisis: Present, future, past AHA presidents awed by COVID-19 response
03/19/2020
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AHA Journals COVID-19 content
03/17/2020
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HFSA/ACC/AHA statement addresses concerns re: using RAAS antagonists in COVID-19
03/16/2020 | Patients with underlying cardiovascular diseases appear to have an increased risk for adverse outcomes with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Lifestyle and Risk Factor Modification for Reduction of Atrial Fibrillation
03/09/2020 | Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with high morbidity, mortality and healthcare usage.
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Call to Action: Rural Health
02/10/2020 | Addressing the unique health needs of people in rural America is critical to achieving the AHA?s new 2030 impact goal for equitably increasing healthy life expectancy.
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Lifestyle Changes in Relation to Initiation of Antihypertensive and Lipid?Lowering Medication: A Cohort Study
02/05/2020
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The AHA 2030 Impact Goal
01/29/2020 | Since the late 1990s, the AHA has committed to a singular impact goal to advance the AHA?s mission for the decade ahead.
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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics - 2020 Update
01/29/2020 | The age-adjusted death rate attributable to cardiovascular disease (CVD), based on 2017 data, is 219.4 per 100,000.
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Short-Term Exposure to Waterpipe/Hookah Smoke Triggers a Hyperactive Platelet Activation State and Increases the Risk of Thrombogenesis
01/16/2020
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Tracking Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation and Completion Among Medicare Beneficiaries to Inform the Efforts of a National Initiative
01/14/2020
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Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Use Patterns and Impact Across Race and Ethnicity in the Southern Community Cohort Study
12/11/2019
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Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence in Adults With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in the United States, 2013 to 2017
11/25/2019
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HYPERTENSION | Live Tweet Chat | November 25, 2019
11/22/2019 | HYPERTENSION, Obesity, High Blood Pressure, and Physical Activity Determine Vascular Phenotype in Young Children
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2019 Update to the 2018 Acute Ischemic Stroke Guidelines
10/30/2019 | This guideline update provides up-to-date comprehensive recommendations for the management and treatment of persons with acute arterial ischemic stroke.