Publications by authors named "A Al-Hazzouri"
The management of advanced heart failure (HF) has long posed significant challenges due to its complex and chronic nature. Heart transplantation, while effective, is not always feasible due to the limited availability of donor organs. In this context, long term mechanical circulatory support and mainly left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have emerged as a vital intervention to fill this gap.
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- The study investigates how education impacts cardiometabolic health indicators (like BMI, blood pressure, and cholesterol) in middle-aged and older adults across the US, Mexico, China, and India, taking into account urban versus rural living conditions.
- Data was collected from large-scale health surveys in each country, using both absolute (education level) and relative (ranking within the country) measures of educational attainment to analyze their relationship with health outcomes.
- Results showed significant educational disparities, with higher education linked to lower blood pressure and HbA1c levels in the US, lower BMI in Mexico, but no significant health benefits associated with education in China; however, urban settings may play a role in these variations.
Hypertension is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Garlic has a long history of use in traditional medicine for various conditions, including hypertension. This narrative review examined the scientific evidence on the efficacy of garlic in lowering blood pressure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPolysocial risk scores were recently proposed as a strategy for improving the clinical relevance of knowledge about social determinants of health. Our objective in this study was to assess whether the polysocial risk score model improves prediction of cognition and all-cause mortality in middle-aged and older adults beyond simpler models including a smaller set of key social determinants of health. We used a sample of 13 773 individuals aged ≥50 years at baseline from the 2006-2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study, a US population-based longitudinal cohort study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Earning a low wage is an increasingly recognized public health concern, yet little research exists on the long-term health consequences of sustained low-wage earning.
Objective: To examine the association of sustained low-wage earning and mortality in a sample of workers with hourly wage reported biennially during peak midlife earning years.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This longitudinal study included 4002 US participants, aged 50 years or older, from 2 subcohorts of the Health and Retirement Study (1992-2018) who worked for pay and reported earning hourly wages at 3 or more time points during a 12-year period during their midlife (1992-2004 or 1998-2010).