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Article: National Minority Quality Forum Creates Advanced, Precision Tracking Tool to Address Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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The National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF), one of the nation's leading voices in the health disparities discussion, is launching the P.A.D. Atlas, a database that maps by zip code peripheral arterial disease (P.A.D.) prevalence down to the street level, with the P.A.D. Coalition and support from the Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi Pharmaceuticals Partnership. The P.A.D. Atlas (www.mappad.org) will be demonstrated during a launch event at 9:30 a.m. at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 15th. September is P.A.D. Awareness Month (see also Heart Attack).
"Through timely detection and treatment of P.A.D., we can prevent heart attacks, strokes and even ...