3 Quotes by Kristin Newby

Native Americans have a lot more cardiovascular disease than the population in general, but what we don't know is how much of their increased risk is due to their genetic background and how that background is modified by Western lifestyles and environmental factors.

We as physicians have spent a great deal of time studying how best to treat our patients while in the hospital, so now we need to focus on better understanding the barriers to improved compliance outside of acute medical settings. This will be a much more difficult problem, since it involves so many different factors.

Among all the patients, the proportion of patients taking each agent and combinations of agents increased over the time of the study, with the peak for each occurring in 2002.