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The American Heart Association at 100: A Century of Scientific Progress and the Future of Cardiovascular Science: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association. Circulation 2024 Mar 19;149(12):e964-e985

Date

02/12/2024

Pubmed ID

38344851

DOI

10.1161/CIR.0000000000001213

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-85188281363 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   2 Citations

Abstract

In 1924, the founders of the American Heart Association (AHA) envisioned an international society focused on the heart and aimed at facilitating research, disseminating information, increasing public awareness, and developing public health policy related to heart disease. This presidential advisory provides a comprehensive review of the past century of cardiovascular and stroke science, with a focus on the AHA's contributions, as well as informed speculation about the future of cardiovascular science into the next century of the organization's history. The AHA is a leader in fundamental, translational, clinical, and population science, and it promotes the concept of the "learning health system," in which a continuous cycle of evidence-based practice leads to practice-based evidence, permitting an iterative refinement in clinical evidence and care. This advisory presents the AHA's journey over the past century from instituting professional membership to establishing extraordinary research funding programs; translating evidence to practice through clinical practice guidelines; affecting systems of care through quality programs, certification, and implementation; leading important advocacy efforts at the federal, state and local levels; and building global coalitions around cardiovascular and stroke science and public health. Recognizing an exciting potential future for science and medicine, the advisory offers a vision for even greater impact for the AHA's second century in its continued mission to be a relentless force for longer, healthier lives.

Author List

Elkind MSV, Arnett DK, Benjamin IJ, Eckel RH, Grant AO, Houser SR, Jacobs AK, Jones DW, Robertson RM, Sacco RL, Smith SC Jr, Weisfeldt ML, Wu JC, Jessup M

Author

Ivor J. Benjamin MD Professor in the Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

American Heart Association
Cardiovascular Diseases
Evidence-Based Practice
Heart Diseases
Humans
Mediastinum
Stroke
United States