VIDEO: A conversation on equity in hypertension care
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PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Yvonne Commodore-Mensah, PhD, MHS, RN, talks with Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, about the burden of uncontrolled hypertension in the U.S. and how to consider health equity in treatment.
Ferdinand, the Gerald S. Berenson Endowed Chair in Preventive Cardiology, professor of medicine in the John W. Deming Department of Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine and a member of the Healio | Cardiology Today Editorial Board, and Commodore-Mensah, associate professor of nursing and cardiovascular nurse epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, participated in a late-breaking science session on achieving equity in CVD prevention at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
“Far too many Americans have hypertension, about 122 million adults,” Commodore-Mensah said. “We also know there are disparities in hypertension in the United States.”
Ferdinand said social determinants of health remain the primary driver of disparities in hypertension prevalence and treatment.
“We can have new drugs and new devices and the devices may help those with true resistant hypertension, but if we don’t apply newer therapies equally ... we are not doing the right thing,” he said.
Watch the video for more.
Reference:
- Ferdinand KC, et al. LBS.07. From local to global: Achieving equity in prevention. Presented at: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions; Nov. 11-13, 2023; Philadelphia.
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