Publications by authors named "Reva Gajer"
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at how well health system employees of different races understand their heart disease risks.
- It involved 759 employees who answered questions and got health screenings at an awareness event.
- Findings showed that African American employees had more health issues like high blood pressure and diabetes, and were less interested in further screening than employees from other groups.
Given the association of adverse pregnancy outcomes with risk of developing cardiovascular disease and cardiac events later in life, our institution launched a CardioObstetrics (CardioOB) program aimed to provide long-term care for patients at risk. We performed a retrospective cohort study in order to investigate which patient characteristics were associated with CardioOB follow-up following the inception of the program. We identified several sociodemographic factors and pregnancy characteristics such as increased maternal age, non-English language preferred, married marital status, referral during the antepartum period, and discharged with antihypertensive medications after delivery associated with a higher likelihood of CardioOB follow-up.
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