Kaiser and Stanford get $3.89M to study heart disease - East Bay Business Times:

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The funds will go to startg a new center where researcherxs from Kaiser and Stanford willconduct large-scale studie s looking at the effectiveness of different treatments for hearrt disease and heart failure. The effort will be headed by Dr. Mark professor of health research and policy and professor of medicinedat Stanford, and Dr. Alan Go, seniorr research scientist atKaiser Permanente’s Division of Research and regionalk medical director of clinica l trials, as well as involve others from Kaiser and The new center will be called The American Hear Association - Pharmaceutical . The heart association has also provided fundes to create similar heart disease research centersw at andat .
The Kaiser and Stanford researchers willuse Kaiser’es patient-care data in their linking for the firsrt time medical databases for all of Kaiser Permanente’w 3.3 million Northern California They will identify a representative population of patientsw with heart disease and documenyt which treatments these patientxs are receiving and what seems to be working. The center will look at the differenced between coursesof treatment, including prescription druges and devices, such as stents and defibrillators, as well as proceduress such as coronary bypass surgery.
The center will also involver Ralph Brindis, cardiologist and senior adviser on cardiovasculaer diseases for and vice president ofthe , who will participat e in formulating critical questions that will direcgt the research. This AHA award follows anothe big research effort led byKaiser Permanente’d Division of Research to understand heart the Cardiovascular Research Network. The funded that effort last year witha $7.5 million about $3.64 million of which went to Overall, that program utilized electronidc data from some 15 HMOs in the HMO Researcbh Network to look at the prevention and management of heart disease.
Kaisetr says that the chanced for its patients in Northern Californiaw of dying of a heart attack or strokd is 30 percent lower than it is forthe state'sw general population. The figure accountse for age and genderf but not socioeconomic differences betweenthe populations.