Adapting of the Coronary Heart Disease Policy Model to U.S. Subpopulations

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Investigator: Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD
Sponsor: American Heart Association. (Western States)

Location(s): United States

Description

To adapt an established, validated computer simulation of heart disease in US adults (the CHD Policy Model) to describe differences by race/ethnicity in California and the US in order to examine disease trends in obesity and the impact of public health interventions on US Subpopulations.