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What is the Jackson Heart Study?

Why is the Jackson Heart Study important?

How will the Jackson Heart Study benefit the community?


What is the vision of the Jackson Heart Study for the future?

     
 
The Community Partnership Office has a well trained staff of Health Educators and Outreach Workers who will come to your church, special event, health fair, or community meeting to assist the community in health promotion. The Partnership staff is in the community daily establishing the link between the tri-county communities and the Jackson Heart Study Office.

 
-What is the Coordinating Center?
     

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.::  Undergraduate Training Center

-What is the Exam Center?

 

-What is the Undergraduate Training Center?

 
  .:: Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease:
 

The primary risk factors for cardiovascular disease:  

Smoking
Poor nutrition
Sedentary lifestyle
High Blood Pressure
High Cholesterol
Obesity
Diabetes

The main way to prevent cardiovascular disease/heart disease is to reduce the primary risk factors listed above. Following are some questions that you may want to ask your doctor or nurse practitioner about reducing your risk factors and therefore preventing cardiovascular disease:

 
 

        

 

Interesting Facts
  1. The leading cause of death for African American males and females is CVD. (Preliminary)
     

  2. Statistics show that no disease, not even cancer, claims as many women's lives as CVD.
     

  3. CVD causes about a death a minute among females.
     

  4. It is estimated that 400,000- 460,000  people each year die in an emergency department or before reaching a hospital.

 
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