UMass Medical Awarded $836K to Fight Heart Disease
Monday, December 12, 2016
“Heart disease impacts families across the country every year and there has never been a more important time to invest in life-saving medical research. This new federal funding for UMass Medical School will help them continue their cutting-edge medical research that will help save lives while supporting economic growth right here in Massachusetts,” said McGovern.
The award was announced on Friday.
The Funding and Study
The grant continues the decades-long work of the Worcester Heart Attack Study, funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood institute since the mid-1980s.
The study provides 40 years of data about the number of heart attacks among residents of the Greater Worcester community and outcomes of their medical care during and after hospitalization.
“What we’ve learned since 1975 is that even though Worcester heart attack patients have become older and sicker, often having multiple diseases, the incidence of heart attacks is declining, and patients’ prognosis both in-hospital and post-discharge is getting better. We think this is because patients are being much more aggressively managed with evidence-based care,” said Robert Goldberg, PhD, professor of quantitative health sciences and founder and principal investigator of the renamed Worcester Heart Attack Study.
This new funding will assist Goldberg and his research team achieve their goals by monitoring trends of heart attack patients; and patient management.
The new federal funding is awarded through the Community Surveillance of Coronary Heart Disease program.
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