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Joncita Todechine, a mother of four who lives on the Navajo Nation, knows all too well what can trigger asthma symptoms in her daughter Ashley. But she didn’t always. She recalls a time in 2013, living in Phoenix and attending medical assistant school, when she rushed her then-three-year-old to the Indian Medical Center. “She was really sick,”...
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This is the second in a two-part series about the Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment Research (COPTR) consortium. Part 1 of the COPTR series.
From organizing after-school team sports programs for elementary school children to encouraging lifestyle changes in adolescents, two NHLBI...
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In English El NHLBI y la anemia de células falciformes El NHLBI ha investigado la anemia de células falciformes desde su fundación en 1948 como Instituto Nacional del Corazón (National Heart Institute). Desde 1972, cuando se aprobó la Ley Nacional de Control de la Anemia de Células Falciformes, el NHLBI ha gastado más de mil millones de dólares...
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In 1993, the NHLBI’s Women's Health Initiative (WHI) began enrolling the first participants in what would become one of the most definitive, far-reaching clinical trials of post-menopausal women's health ever undertaken in the U.S. During its more than 20 years of work, this long-term national health study of 161,808 women aged 50-79 has focused on...
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Tremendous progress in the treatment of HIV has led to increased survival and a dramatic evolution of the disease’s course in patients. The clinical challenges confronting the population have now shifted from AIDS-related illnesses to chronic diseases, such as coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive lung disease, and chronic anemia. Multiple...
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Results from the COAG study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine on November 19, 2013, to coincide with a presentation of the study findings at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions in Dallas. The NIH-funded clinical trial found that combining genetic data with clinical information to determine the initial dosage...
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