Cardiovascular Disease Research
CVD Training Fellowship
This NIH-sponsored Fellowship offers training and research opportunities to selected PhD students and post-doctoral fellows interested in the causes and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
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Contact: Aaron Folsom
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While the rate of deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been on the decline, improved survival has resulted in significant new cases and cost to the health care system in our rapidly aging society. Thus the goal of CVD epidemiology is to investigate and promote cardiovascular health, and to prevent and reduce CVD.
CVD Epidemiology Program
Traditionally, cardiovascular disease epidemiology has been concerned with causes of heart disease.
In recent years, prevention by modification of lifestyle and behavior have been tested and found very effective. In addition, new methods to detect disease while subclinical, that is, in its early stages, have strengthened our studies of antecedent risk factors.
| Researchers at EpiCH investigate the distribution and causes of CVD and study the influence of: | They also explore the impact of health behaviors such as: |
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