State Requirements for Automated External Defibrillators in American Schools: Framing the Debate About Legislative Action.

Installation of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in schools has been associated with increased survival after sudden cardiac arrest. An authoritative academic research database was interrogated to identify all current state statutes pertaining to AEDs in schools. As of February 2016, 17 of 50 U.

The need for leadership in global health.

Globalisation has brought with it many advances in health, but also a new range of challenges. There is a need to move from "nation-focused" (international) public health to global public health--and the terminology we use here matters. Global public health leadership requires that respect be shown to evidence, especially that about the changing nature of disease worldwide.

Obesity and cardiovascular disease in developing countries: a growing problem and an economic threat.

Purpose Of Review: This review examines the rise of risk factors for cardiovascular disease, especially obesity, in developing countries and the implications for both health and economics.

Recent Findings: In the majority of developing countries fertility and infant and child mortality have fallen markedly, and life expectancies have increased. Rapid urbanization, falling food prices, and globalization of economies have contributed to an increase in risk factors for chronic disease.

Multicenter automatic defibrillator implantation trial-cardiac resynchronization therapy (MADIT-CRT): design and clinical protocol.

The planned MADIT-CRT trial is designed to determine if CRT-D will reduce the risk of mortality and HF events by approximately 25% in subjects with ischemic (NYHA class I-II) and non-ischemic (NYHA class II) cardiomyopathy, left ventricular dysfunction (EFor=130 ms).

Identification and management of patients with hypertension in the polyclinic system of the Russian Federation.

Background: Cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus, are the major determinants of poor health in the Russian Federation.

Methods: This study assessed the feasibility of establishing a program to identify and manage hypertension and associated cardiovascular risk factors in an outpatient clinic within the Russian polyclinic system. In urban polyclinic in Kazan, Tatarstan, which is responsible for 77,000 covered lives, we enrolled 192 patients with hypertension of whom 68 had type 2 diabetes mellitus screened from various clinics within the polyclinic.

Beyond reproduction: women's health in today's developing world.

Background: The concept of women's health is tethered strongly to reproductive health. At present, international attention and resources are focused on obstetric events and, recently, HIV/AIDS because of the significance of these problems in the least developed nations. This limited concept of women's health, however, is decreasingly relevant to the global community, and needs to be revisited in the light of decreasing fertility and increasing life expectancy in many countries where it was previously applicable.

The Russian health care system today: can American-Russian CME programs help?

The health of the Russian people has deteriorated dramatically since the fall of communism, due particularly to cardiovascular disease. The Eurasian Medical Education Program was developed in response to provide continuing medical education for Russian physicians. Programs are directed mainly toward primary care physicians and focus on outpatient management of diseases that cause high rates of mortality and morbidity.

Usefulness of standard electrocardiographic parameters for predicting cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction during modern treatment era.

Comprehensive information about the independent value of different electrocardiographic (ECG) variables in predicting cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the era of modern therapy is limited. Patients (n = 1,034) underwent standard electrocardiography from 5 to 7 days after an AMI. Several time intervals and PQRST abnormalities were analyzed from the electrocardiogram.

Global health assistance: a new perspective.

Health care priorities for many emerging economies have undergone a dramatic transition in the recent past because of the rise in chronic illness, increased longevity, and lessened infant mortality. Two additional major societal forces, democratization and the information revolution, will alter the nature of global health assistance. Because of democratization, governments will feel increasing pressure to provide adequate health care.