{"id":36283,"date":"2010-03-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/03\/30\/unmc-grants-nursing-receives-1-million-grant-to-attack-heart-disease\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:37:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:37:16","slug":"unmc-grants-nursing-receives-1-million-grant-to-attack-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/03\/30\/unmc-grants-nursing-receives-1-million-grant-to-attack-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"UNMC Grants — Nursing receives $1 million grant to attack heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Institute of Nursing Research has awarded the UNMC College of Nursing a five-year, $1 million grant to create and fund a Healthy Heart Center. <\/p>\n

The center expands research at the college through five pilot studies to promote health in Nebraskans in rural areas with, or at risk, for heart disease.<\/p>\n

\"pictureThe funding also enables faculty to build successful research programs that later can help them secure major funding. <\/p>\n

“This center is vital to developing research that improves the cardiovascular health of those living in rural Nebraska,” said Carol Pullen, Ed.D., principal investigator of the grant and professor in the UNMC College of Nursing. “Nebraskans in rural areas are at higher risk for heart disease and engage in fewer things that promote healthy lifestyles such as exercise and other health promotion activities.<\/p>\n

“We need better interventions to help engage them in lifestyle behaviors that have an impact on improving cardiovascular health.”<\/p>\n


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\n<\/TABLE>Overall the five studies will involve about 240 study participants, Dr. Pullen said. They will focus on:
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