Hispanic Americans need tailored heart care: report

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Hispanic Americans need tailored heart care: report

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hispanic Americans make up the fastest growing minority group in the U.S. and healthcare professionals need to better understand their unique heart health risks in order to tailor their care, according to a new report from the American Heart Association. “We hope that we can move into a new era when we can look at this population with a more nuanced perspective,” said Dr. Carlos Rodriguez, the report’s lead author and a cardiologist at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Cardiovascular disease includes conditions that affect the heart and blood vessels, such as heart failure, strokes and high blood pressure. The size and growth of the U.S. Hispanic community makes the group’s health vital to the nation and to reaching the American Heart Association’s 2020 goals, Rodriguez and his co-authors write in the journal Circulation.

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