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Columbia University Medical Center Preventive Cardiology Program Receives NIH Funding to Study Cardiac Caregiving
Cardiac caregivers such as family members and friends who assist cardiovascular disease patients with their daily activities may represent an important opportunity to disseminate preventive strategies to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease.  Caregivers themselves may be at increased cardiovascular disease risk, because they may be family members who share genes or lifestyle habits with the cardiac patient, or forgo their own prevention behaviors to take care of the patient.  Through this cardiac caregiving research we aim to learn more about the prevalence of cardiac caregiving, the characteristics of patient caregivers, and the impact that having a caregiver has on patient health after discharge.  This information will aid us in developing future cardiovascular disease prevention and education programs for patients and their caregivers.

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The mission of the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Preventive Cardiology Program is to optimize the preventive care of patients and the public with or at risk for cardiovascular disease, and to stimulate and facilitate multidisciplinary preventive research and education.