Sustainability Planning for a Community Network to Increase Participation in Evidence-Based Lifestyle Change Programs: A Mixed-Methods Approach.

Community-based chronic disease prevention programs can have long-term, broad public health benefits. Yet, only 40 to 60% of evidence-based health programs are sustained. Using established frameworks and evidence-based tools to characterize sustainability allows programs to develop structures and processes to leverage resources effectively to sustain effective program activities and systems.

Electrocardiograms Do Not Detect Myocardial Ischemia in Patients With Williams Syndrome and Nonsyndromic Elastin Arteriopathy With Coronary Artery Stenosis.

Coronary artery stenosis (CAS) may affect up to 27% of patients with Williams syndrome (WS), which may lead to myocardial ischemia. Patients with WS face a 25- to 100-fold greater risk of sudden cardiac death, frequently linked to anesthesia. Assessing CAS requires either imaging while under general anesthesia or intraoperative assessment, with the latter considered the gold standard.

A Communitywide Collaboration to Increase Enrollment, Retention, and Success in Evidence-Based Lifestyle-Change Programs in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations.

Purpose And Objectives: Chronic diseases (eg, diabetes, hypertension) are the leading causes of death in the US and disproportionally affect racial and ethnic minority populations. This disparity is partially due to the unequal burden of unmet social needs that stem from several factors, including racism.

Intervention Approach: The Alliance is a collaboration among health care, public health, and community organizations formed to improve referral, enrollment, and successful completion of evidence-based lifestyle-change programs, particularly among Black people.

Risk Factors for Adverse Outcomes in Term Infants with CHD and Definitive Necrotising Enterocolitis.

Objectives: To define the incidence of definitive necrotising enterocolitis in term infants with CHD and identify risk factors for morbidity/mortality.

Methods: We performed a 20-year (2000-2020) single-institution retrospective cohort study of term infants with CHD admitted to the Boston Children's Hospital cardiac ICU with necrotising enterocolitis (Bell's stage ≥ II). The primary outcome was a composite of in-hospital mortality and post-necrotising enterocolitis morbidity (need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, multisystem organ failure based on the paediatric sequential organ failure assessment score, and/or need for acute gastrointestinal intervention).

Arrhythmias in Williams Syndrome.

Williams syndrome (WS) is a congenital, multisystem disorder in which 80% of patients have cardiovascular abnormalities. Sudden cardiac death occurs 25 to 100 times more often in WS than in the general population, and cardiac repolarization is abnormal in WS. We sought to determine the prevalence of primary arrhythmias in patients with WS and whether QTc prolongation impacts arrhythmia risk.