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turning-back-the-tide-on-heart-and-circulatory-diseases

15 Nov 2018

Yet the UK remains significantly ‘underinvested’ 4 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Global Burden of in research into heart and circulatory diseases Disease Study 2015 Results, 2016 and The Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, The King’s Fund and the Nuffield Trust, compared to the current disease burden, an How Good is the NHS?, 2018. [...] on air pollution to those suggested by the improvements in population World Health Organization, the introduction of This research has helped to identify that air pollution, especially mandatory charging ‘Clean Air Zones’ in areas fine (PM2.5) and ultrafine particulate matter, can cause damage health in recent decades, millions of the country with the worst air quality, and the to the heart and ci. [...] The centre will bring together data from a wide variety of sources and make it available to clinicians and researchers for the purposes of accelerating transformational advances in the understanding of heart and circulatory diseases, as well as supporting more effective clinical decision-making and the delivery of precision medicine. [...] We cardiovascular investigators and data scientists need to ensure that the public are engaged with will create additional informatics capability Big data will drive this transformation, along with and informed about the use of data science in Promote effective data-sharing in biomedicine, and could generate ground- the digitisation of the health service and growth the delivery of their healthcare. [...] The Charities and other trusted organisations A concerted effort will be required on the part transition to electronic health records, which are can play an instrumental role by informing In big data, size matters – the more data we can of all the major players in England’s health and able to exchange and make use of information, and engaging the public on how emerging feed algorithms, the more ac.
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