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American Heart Association Urges Congress to Accelerate Efforts to Enact Comprehensive Health Care Reform
Date:3/16/2009

hnologies that might one day regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack or brain tissue after a stroke are examples of research that will be delayed significantly unless more resources can be directed towards research," Gardner added.

"In some respects, we are victims of our own success," said Clyde Yancy, M.D., American Heart Association President-Elect. "Coronary heart disease and stroke death rates have each fallen by almost 30% since 1999 and this decline is closely related to NIH heart and stroke research. However we must increase funding in these areas to take us to that next level in cardiovascular prevention and treatment."

Risk factors, such as unhealthy weight, poor diet, smoking and diabetes, are on the rise and could undercut many of the gains made in recent decades, according to the Association. "We are concerned that the current economic downturn may exacerbate these trends, as incomes drop, layoffs increase and stress levels rise," said Yancy.

These risk factors could be addressed through preventive measures contained in any comprehensive healthcare reform bill as well as through legislation that combats childhood obesity and curbs tobacco use. Making evidence-based clinical preventive services part of health care coverage for all Americans and removing financial barriers to their use are top priorities for the Association in health care reform. These clinical services should ideally be bolstered by a public health infrastructure that promotes community-based prevention programs for obesity, tobacco cessation, hypertension, poor nutrition, and other cardiovascular risk factors.

Pending federal legislation supported by the association includes the Fitness Integrated with Teaching (FIT) Kids Act, which holds schools accountable for providing students with high quality physical education and the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act that would give the Food and Drug
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