All Articles tagged Chapel Hill

Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
January 10, 2024 EDT
Advancing Cardiovascular Risk Assessment with Artificial Intelligence: Opportunities and Implications in North Carolina
Katherine M. ConnersChristy L. AveryFaisal F. Syed
Artificial intelligence (AI) can repurpose the widely available electrocardiogram (ECG) for enhanced assessment of cardiac dysfunction.
Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
January 10, 2024 EDT
Optimizing Cancer Prevention in Adolescents by Improving HPV Vaccine Delivery
Nadja A. VielotNoel T. Brewer
Routine HPV vaccination can prevent six cancers. Promising practices include starting HPV vaccine recommendations and vaccine registry forecasting at age 9 and school entry requirements.
Policy Forum: Invited Commentaries & Sidebars
November 06, 2023 EDT
Building Veteran Healthy Communities Project: Serving Those Who Have Served Us
Caroline TaheriPhillip Aaron NetteVaughn Upshaw
The Building Veteran Healthy Communities Project at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Gillings School of Global Public Health utilizes a public health approach focusing on community-level factors that can positively impact Veterans.
Original Research
September 21, 2023 EDT
Disparities in Food Security and Glycemic Control Among People with Type 2 Diabetes During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thanh TranAngelica Cristello SarteauCy FoglemanLaura Anne YoungElizabeth Mayer-Davis
Although effect modification was not detected, racial disparities in HbA1c and food insecurity warrant further investigation.
Original Research
July 05, 2023 EDT
Racial and Rural-Urban Disparities in Maternal Cardiac Disease Care in North Carolina: A Call to Action
Julia M. MoyettLinda M. Zambrano GuevaraDivya P. MallampatiM. Kathryn MenardBrenna L. HughesMaria J. SmallElizabeth G. LivingstonJohanna Quist-NelsonMarie-Louise MengJerome J. Federspiel
In North Carolina, there is a pronounced racial disparity in cardiac SMM during delivery hospitalizations, which is driven by patients with mWHO II/III–IV disease.