Research in the SouthWest Affiliate

million dollars in research is currently funded in the six state area (Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming) of the SouthWest Affiliate (SWA).

The American Heart Association (AHA), currently lacks the additional
Number -7.3 million to fund all the highly meritorious applications from the SWA.

The AHA currently funds Number - 244

researchers in 43 institutions in 23 cities across the SWA.

million in research has been funded in the SWA by the AHA from 1951 through 2010.

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die of cardiovascular diseases each day — nearly one person every 38 seconds. Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives each year than cancer, chronic lower respiratory diseases and accidents combined. On average, every 40 seconds someone in the United States has a stroke.

Research is a major weapon in our fight against these diseases.

Since 1949, the American Heart Association has spent more than $3.3 billion on research to increase our knowledge about cardiovascular diseases and stroke. We've funded 12 nobel peace prize winners during their careers, helped link dietary fat with cholesterol, funded the creation of the first pacemaker and supported early research for the arterial stent. We're second only to the federal government in funding cardiovascular and stroke research; however, each year we need more resources to attract and encourage promising scientists to careers in cardiovascular and stroke programs, fund high-quality research projects and originate new programs to meet the needs of the research community.

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