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Kitamura moves into healthcare

April 1, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Elaine Kitamura has accepted a new position as Regional Director for Multicultural Initiatives for the American Heart Association. Starting April 4, the work that she will be involved in, will help to meet the organization’s impact goal to improve cardiovascular health of all Americans and decrease deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent […]

Filed Under: Names in the News Tagged With: 2016, American Heart Association, Elaine Kitamura, Starting April, Vol 35 No 14 | April 2 - April 8

Women and heart disease

March 26, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Francesca Minas, American Heart Association Northwest Asian Weekly Only a little over half are aware that heart disease is the leading killer of women, responsible for one of every three women’s deaths annually. Believe that heart disease is a “man’s disease” is still a common misperception. Yee Mei, Lee-Kong of Seattle got a pacemaker […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2010, 2015, American Heart Association, BMI, East West Bank, Go Red Heart Checkup, Heart Truth, Last February, Lee Kong, Nancy Lee, New York City, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Susanne Steinbaum, VP, Vol 34 No 14 | March 28 - April 3, Women's Health Issue 2015, Yee Mei

Nonwhites have more high blood pressure

April 25, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Jae Hong, MD, Summit Cardiology, UW Northwest Hospital It’s hard to believe, but today, about 76.4 million adults in the United States have been diagnosed with high blood pressure. Some studies have shown that Asian Americans, along with African Americans, Mexican Americans, American Indians and native Hawaiians are at a greater risk of high […]

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: 2014, African Americans, American Heart Association, American Indians, Asian Americans, Health Equity, International District Chinatown Community Center, Jae Hong, Mexican Americans, NAPCA, Nancy Lee, Nelson Tang, Seattle, Senior Wellness Fair, Vietnamese, Vol 33 No 18 | April 26 - May 2, Wendy Zheng

Scholarship for minority women studying health care offered

November 9, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

In an effort to ease the financial burden on students and increase the number of underrepresented minorities in medicine, the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women and Macy’s, its national sponsor, are offering the Go Red Multicultural Scholarship Fund.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2012, American Heart Association, Bill Hawthorne, Go Red Multicultural Scholarship Fund, Jennifer Mieres, Multicultural Fund, New York, Public Health, Senior Vice President, Vol 31 No 46 | November 10 - November 16

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