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Social determinants
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Nurse-led heart failure care cut deaths by 22% across 22 centers in India
Heart failure care in low-resource settings depends on specialists who are scarce and appointments patients cannot reach. A cluster-randomized trial of 1,507 adults moved the work to nurses and phones.
Sep 8, 2026
Hospital takeovers cut heart attack deaths in Germany while leaving stroke deaths unchanged
Hospital consolidation is usually argued about as a question of money and market power. Comparing 125 acquired German hospitals against 821 that stayed independent asked whether patients survive.
Sep 8, 2026
Stroke was far less common in Black adults born outside the US than in those born in it
American health statistics treat Black adults as one group. Splitting 64,717 survey respondents by where they were born found stroke rates that differ several-fold within it.
Sep 8, 2026
Meals built from traditional foods cut heart failure hospital visits by more than a quarter
Medically tailored meals usually mean someone else's idea of healthy food. A trial in 206 American Indian patients with heart failure built the meals from foods the community already eats, and counted what happened.
Sep 6, 2026