Project AsPIRE (Asian American Partnership in Research and Endowment) was a community-based participatory research program designed to develop, test, and evaluate a community health worker model designed to reduce cardiovascular disease and hypertension disparities among Filipino Americans living in New York and New Jersey. The project consisted of a pilot intervention and a 4-month full intervention....

ACCORD was a large clinical trial examining methods of lowering the rate of cardiovascular disease in adults with type two diabetes. The study was composed of three clinical trials: an intensive lowering of blood sugar levels, intensive lowering of blood pressure, and treatment of multiple blood lipids with a combination of a fibrate and a statin. The study enrolled 10,251 adults beginning in 2001.

This dataset was part of a study of how patients use the new feature in MyChart that allowed them to submit blood pressure readings taken from home. This dataset includes information on all patients whose physicians have enabled this new feature. It includes the patient's medical reference number, the name of the provider who approved the feature, the site of the provider, whether or not blood pressure...

This data was part of an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study to better understand the process by which psychological stress is linked to the development of hypertension. Data was collected in 2016 in New York City from 163 normotensive and untreated hypertensive subjects. Subjects underwent electronic diary-based assessment of daily stress exposure and rumination, as well as actigraphy and...

This dataset was compiled as part of a study of patients with status epileptics. Patients with status epilepticus are at high risk to develop epilepsy over a short period of time and would form an ideal population for future antiepileptogenesis and disease modification trials. The goal was to determine characteristics of epilepsy that follows status epilepticus in order to inform the design of future...

The Framingham Heart Study (FHS) is an ongoing cohort study dedicated to identifying common factors or characteristics that contribute to cardiovascular disease (CVD). It is a collaborative project of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and Boston University. In 1948, an original cohort of 5,209 men and women between 30 and 62 years old were recruited from Framingham, MA. An Offspring Cohort...

This dataset was generated as part of a cluster-randomized, 2-arm trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a faith-based group-counseling therapeutic lifestyle intervention and motivational interviewed (MINT-TLC) vs. health education (HE) on black adults who attend churches in New York City. 32 churches with approximately 300 eligible adults were randomly assigned to either MINT-TLC or HE control, and...

This dataset was generated from a 12-month two-arm cluster-randomized controlled trial, Counseling African Americans to Control Hypertension (CAATCH). The goal of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a multilevel, multicomponent, evidence-based intervention compared with usual care in improving blood pressure control among hypertensive blacks who receive care in community health centers....

The Jackson Heart Study (JHS) is a population-based longitudinal study based in Jackson, Mississippi that investigates cardiovascular disease among African Americans, including congenital heart disease, strokes, and high blood pressure. The primary objective is to investigate cardiovascular disease in African Americans in order to better address health disparities. The JHS is a community-based observational...

This dataset was compiled as part of a retrospective, observational cohort study of patients as they move through the heart failure care pathway at NYU Langone Health. For each patient that enters the heart failure care pathway, the dataset includes the medical reference number, age, sex, date and time of admission, date and time of discharge, date and time of pathway start, date and time of pathway...