AHA, ADA award community grants to improve CVD risk in type 2 diabetes
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The American Heart Association, in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association, accounted they awarded 10 community grants of up to $900,000 to help patients with type 2 diabetes lower their risk for CVD.
According to the release, the grants are part of the joint Know Diabetes by Heart initiative which seeks to reduce CV events and death among people with type 2 diabetes.
The aim of the community grants is to help organizations provide diabetes and CVD education materials and resources and fund outreach efforts that focused on engagement with Black and Latino populations, who experience disparate CVD and diabetes burden.
“Knowledge is power and arming these community organizations with resources and accessible information is key for people with type 2 diabetes to better understand their elevated risk for heart disease and stroke,” Robert A. Gabbay, MD, PhD, FACP, chief scientific and medical officer for the ADA, said in the release. “We are pleased to work with these 10 organizations who are dedicated to improving the health of their communities to get the information into the hands of those who need it most.”
The Know Diabetes by Heart grants were awarded to:
- Clemson University’s Health Extension for Diabetes in South Carolina;
- Gateway Community Health Center’s Gateway Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Self-Management Program in Texas;
- InquisitHealth’s Peer Mentoring Programs in New York and Nevada;
- Johns Hopkins University’s DECIDE Self-Management Support Programs in Maryland and Kansas;
- New Mexico State University’s NMSU Cooperative Extension Service diabetes self-management programs in New Mexico;
- Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute’s Project Dulce – Dulce Digital in California;
- Texas A&M University Center for Population Health and Aging’s Your Diabetes, Your Heart program;
- Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition - University of Illinois at Chicago’s Diabetes Empowerment Education Program;
- Thomas Jefferson University Hospital’s Jefferson Health Preventive Cardiology Program in Pennsylvania; and
- Esperanza’s Champions of Hope: Latinos Preventing Diabetes program in Pennsylvania.
“This is a good time to protect yourself from diabetes-related heart disease and COVID by making lifestyle changes that can help you improve your overall health and better manage your diabetes. It’s good for your heart health and kidney health and will contribute to a longer, healthier life,” Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, FAAFP, the AHA’s chief medical officer for prevention, said in the release.
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