Advancing South Asian Cardiovascular Health: Understanding Unique Risk Factors and Health Needs to Promote Shared Decision-Making

Friday, September 16, 2022, 8:00 AM - Saturday, September 17, 2022, 3:30 PM, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ

This international conference will bring together the voices of world-renowned experts in the field as well as patients and community members who live with heart disease in an effort to understand how collaborative decision-making can help improve heart health outcomes in South Asians in the United States. South Asians are among the fastest growing ethnic groups in the US, and show high rates of heart disease, as compared to other populations. There is not enough research to examine their unique risks and develop effective ways to manage and care for their disease.

South Asians (SAs) are among the fastest growing racial/ethnic groups in the US and bear a highly disproportionate burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD). SAs have the highest CVD rates among all racial/ethnic groups in the US, with a significantly higher prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD), type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and a higher percentage of body fat than other immigrant groups and whites. Also, SAs tend to develop CAD at a younger age, often before 40 in men, and are more likely to die from CAD than other ethnic groups.

South Asians in the US have few established resources related to their high risk for CVD, with significant implications for their health and well-being. Poor CVD outcomes management in SAs may be due to a lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate education materials for patients, inadequate patient knowledge of the healthcare system, lack of health insurance, and other social determinants - an area of further research. This diverse population also often faces tremendous cultural, socioeconomic, linguistic, and structural obstacles to achieving good health. Compounding these challenges, there is a dearth of detailed data on the unique risks, etiologic mechanisms, and effective interventions for CVD in first- and second-generation SAs in the US. This can lead to sub-optimal management of CVD, its risk factor modification, and thus increased recurrent CAD events, exacerbating racial/ethnic disparities and increasing the economic burden of CVD in the US.

In order to begin reversing this knowledge deficit, providers, patients, and shareholders need to be able to 1) identify unique risk factors for cardiovascular disease in South Asians and 2) understand the need for patient-provider dialogue in promoting best practice guidelines and research to improve South Asian cardiovascular health outcomes.

This international conference on South Asian cardiovascular health is designed to provide a high-quality scientific forum in a collaborative environment, which will include patients and providers. Internationally renowned researchers and clinicians will lead sessions addressing CVD risk factors, barriers to management, the role of Big Data, community prevention strategies, and the state of South Asian cardiovascular health in the United States from the AHA, ADA, and NIH perspectives.

For complete activity information including registration, please click here.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, SKN Foundation, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Saint Peter’s University Hospital. Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians: Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses: This activity is awarded 10.25 contact hours. Nurses should only claim those contact hours actually spent participating in the activity.

Physician Assistants: NCCPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME.

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (11.50 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (11.50 hours), ANCC Contact Hours (11.50 hours)

Hyatt Regency
2 Albany St
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

For reservations at the Hyatt, please click here to reserve using the group rate or call 1-877-212-5752 and identify yourself with the Advancing South Asian Cardiovascular Health conference room block. The single/double occupancy rate is $119 per night, plus applicable taxes. Sleeping rooms are available until the block is sold.  Please make your reservations early.

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No faculty are available for this activity at this time.