1/🧵Thrilled that @AHAScience funded our new Rural Health Equity Research Network! Our name: Rural PRO-CARE. Our goal: reduce #rural health disparities through deep community partnership & novel implementation strategies. More at: //bit.ly/434PvyX

A new study presented at #CROI2025 and published in @AnnalsofIM finds HIV not associated with higher risk for coronary artery disease in Uganda, challenging prior notions of health risks among regional #PWH. https://t.co/iNk4dalBsD @mgh_id @mgh_mpec @MbararaUST @ghoshhajra

Dr. Tarin Phillips @heart4fitnessDO Known: ✔️Persons with HIV: 1.5-2x CV risk ✔️ACC/AHA models do not include HIV New: ✔️Increased non-calcified plaque ✔️ ns Trends to more stenosis, less calcified plaque Consider: 👉 Potential CT role 👉Statin etc 👉Need data @Heart_SCCT

Patients with methamphetamine-associated heart failure are less likely to undergo ischemic evaluation than heart failure controls. #AHAJournals #ResearchLetter @cooperbkersey @DaneeHidano @hivcardiodoc @uwashfellows @UWCardiology https://t.co/a9IF0PRjZa

Join HLB-SIMPLe & @nih_nhlbi in honoring #WorldAIDSDay! Read about our research to support/improve the cardiovascular health of people living with #HIV in this new article with contributions from @hivcardiodoc & @SemitalaFred: https://t.co/gHNFat5kfx.

In honor of #NationalRuralHealthDay we'd like to celebrate the excellent work being done by the #RuralPROCare Network. Check out the video below that highlights the #PowerOfRural! @NOSORH @NRHA_Advocacy @wwamirhrc @biancafrogner @janessagraves @rcsalyers https://t.co/Z6H1Zs5nRd

Today is #NationalRuralHealthDay! We're proud to join @NOSORH in celebrating the #PowerofRural 🎉Special shoutout to the many rural healthcare providers, leaders, communities, orgs, and SORHs for their work in impacting rural healthcare. Learn more @ https://t.co/2OiB4YjASd

A recent study in @AHAScience "Stroke" highlights significant disparities in ischemic stroke care between #Rural and urban hospitals. These findings underscore the need for targeted interventions to improve stroke care in rural areas. Learn more here:

The #Rural PRO-CARE Network had the honor of having our projects featured in the APHA 2024 Sponsored Thought Leadership film series that premiered at #APHA2024! Check it out! @APHAAnnualMtg @PublicHealth https://t.co/yzCmQy8WWr

"[We must] continually reexamine how we provide care in our #HIV clinics and consider how we can do better to address the top 3 risk factors for #heartdisease in PLWH: smoking, #hypertension, and high cholesterol" - @hivcardiodoc for @IDSE_Online

#RuralPROCare project RESTORe-CARE's new website is live! Check out the link here to learn more about the drone delivered AED project happening in #rural North Carolina and Virginia: https://t.co/d1UaFnMTPZ! @AHAScience #AHAHERN

Just published in @LancetGH Cost-effectiveness of group medical visits and microfinance interventions to manage hypertension in Kenya https://t.co/fH5QCT9aT9 @pophealthNYC @nyugsom_iehe @nyugrossman @MTRHofficial @MoiMedicine @ampathkenya #globalhealth

New paper out with @kerlands: Chronotropic Incompetence Among People With #HIV Improves With Exercise Training in the Exercise for Healthy Aging Study https://t.co/5lMj2xtlm0 @UCSFCardiology @UCSF_HIVIDGM

95% of people living with HIV (PLWH) in #Botswana are virally suppressed. But only 19% of PLWH and #hypertension there have controlled BP. Results from our team's baseline assessment on #HIVandNCDs can be reviewed now in @ImplementSci Communications:

Going to #AIDS2024? Attend satellite session SAT109 on global health reciprocal innovation sponsored by Fogarty, @HRSAgov, @NIMHgov, @NIH_OAR & @HealthGov. In-person & virtual on July 25 at 6 p.m. CEST https://t.co/AHxYoFsmTG @iasociety #HIV #GlobalHealth 🌎🌏🌍

Hear from our colleagues @hivcardiodoc and @MartinMuddu at this special #AIDS2024 satellite session!

How might drones improve cardiac arrest outcomes in #rural areas? @RuralHeartCare PI Monique Starks and her team are asking using an #ImplementationScience approach! Read more at https://t.co/eER3tIp7FW @AHAScience @ImpSciUW @ruralhealthinfo @ruralhealth

#HCPs who treat HIV: The NEW National HIV Curriculum Podcast has 6 CVD & HIV episodes. Learn about controversies (weight gain & aspirin), new guidelines, the REPRIEVE trial, and more. Thx @hivcardiodoc and @shurtadobares! https://t.co/JjpzPYgZne

It's been an honor for me to present progress on our research to integrate hypertension into HIV care to great African implementation scientists @HlbSimple annual meeting, funded by @nih_nhlbi @Fogarty_NIH @NHLBI_Translate & implemented @IDRC_Uganda @MJAPUg 🙂

It's a pleasure listening to @MoshabelaMosa et al, @HlbSimple Annual meeting. "We need to change how we integrate HIV & NCDs into health care by redesigning the environment in which we practice". @MJAPUg @IDRC_Uganda @hivcardiodoc @StripeHiv @MakCHS_SOM @Makerere @MinofHealthUG

#RuralPROCare project RESTORE-CARE shares findings from drone-delivered AED simulations – CPR quality was largely maintained according to #AHA guidelines while participants retrieved AEDs from drones. Read more at https://t.co/Jt8fdsqqw4 @DanMarkMD @AudreyBlewer #AHAHERN