AAPA Attends Annual Meeting for Vascular Disease Foundation/Peripheral Arterial Disease Coalition/ Venous Disease Coalition
Recently, AAPA attended the Vascular Disease Foundation/Peripheral Arterial Disease Coalition (PAD)/Venous Disease Coalition (VDC) annual meeting. The PAD Coalition is an alliance of health organizations, professional societies — of which AAPA is a member — government agencies and corporations united around a common purpose of improving the health and health care of individuals with PAD.
The coalition announced a recently launched petition drive urging the current administration to increase access to evidence-based health care for individuals with PAD. Also during the meeting, an update from the National Minority Quality Forum apprised the group of the PAD Atlas, which provides on-demand capacity for evaluating the prevalence of diagnosed PAD nationwide, by city and states, as well as by age, gender, and race/ethnicity. Users may create customized maps depicting PAD prevalence to support educational, advocacy and public affairs initiatives. The atlas can be accessed at www.mappad.org.
Also, Garth Graham, MD, deputy assistant secretary for minority health at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), followed up on the Surgeon General’s Call to Action by focusing attention on the African-American population which is at a significantly increased risk of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). To help raise awareness, the VDC launched “Pause for Prevention,” an assessment tool to help individuals understand their risk for DVT or PE. The tool can be accessed on the VDC Web site.
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