{"id":3358,"date":"2025-04-25T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/rural-health-study-is-told-its-losing-federal-funds-and-other-major-heart-studies-are-worried\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T23:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T23:02:53","slug":"rural-health-study-is-told-its-losing-federal-funds-and-other-major-heart-studies-are-worried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/rural-health-study-is-told-its-losing-federal-funds-and-other-major-heart-studies-are-worried\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural health study is told it\u2019s losing federal funds, and other major heart studies are worried"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rural health study is told it\u2019s losing federal funds, and other major heart studies are worried
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Vasan Ramachandran is baffled. A cardiologist and veteran of the famed Framingham Heart Study, he is struggling to understand why a similar study he brought to life in 10 rural counties across four Southern states is facing elimination. The RURAL Cohort Study, set in motion six years ago, was nearing its recruitment goal of 3,300 people, a sign that it was winning the trust of people in remote areas of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky.<\/p>\n

Participants don\u2019t walk into a brick-and-mortar building for this study. The research team travels to them, working in a mobile examination unit housed in a 50-foot trailer weighing about 50,000 metric tons and carrying a CT scanner plus a cardiac ultrasound machine that uses AI. \u201cWe take the science to the people,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rural health study is told it\u2019s losing federal funds, and other major heart studies are worried Vasan Ramachandran is baffled. A cardiologist and veteran of the famed Framingham Heart Study, he is struggling to understand why a similar study he brought to life in 10 rural counties across four Southern states is facing elimination. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2486,2362,1428,2147,2218,2148,2144,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiovascular-disease","category-chronic-disease","category-health","category-hhs","category-in-the-lab","category-nih","category-politics","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}