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A 10-percentage-point increase in Black women giving birth at a hospital was associated with a 5.1-percentage-point decrease in breastfeeding rates. Hospitals with top-quartile nurse work environments had 9 percentage points higher breastfeeding rates.

County-level analysis of nearly 5 million Medicare beneficiaries identified more than 10-fold geographic variation in late-onset epilepsy incidence, with insufficient sleep, heat index, and lack of vehicle access among the strongest area-level predictors.

Brain-predicted age difference and socioeconomic status moderated the relationship between AD pathology markers and cognitive performance in a cross-sectional cohort of 621 cognitively unimpaired older adults.

ACC, AHA, and HRS jointly updated the 2015 advanced training statement for clinical cardiac electrophysiology, adding new required competencies and revised procedural benchmarks for fellowship training.

Of the 432 photographs representing clinical conditions, 10% featured dark skin. Graphic illustrations reflected even greater disparities, with only 2% showing dark skin.

Fewer than half of adults with diabetes at a Northern Uganda referral hospital had received an eye examination in the past five years, with education and disease awareness emerging as the strongest predictors of uptake.