The results indicate that Native Americans and counties in the south were most likely to live without a cardiologist in reach.
A new study has revealed that a shocking 22 million people in the US who are living in 1,454 counties don’t have any cardiologists.
“The lack of access to cardiologists in areas with greater prevalence of heart disease and mortality is incredibly concerning,” Haider J. Warraich MD, the director of the heart failure program at VA Boston Healthcare, associate physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and the study’s senior author, said.
That includes financial incentives that would encourage clinicians to practice in these areas or programs that would deliver care via telemedicine.—especially with regard to prevention and risk modification—with the primary care is crucial.”As a study supported by the ACC, closing social and economic gaps in
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