UCLA and UCI create novel center that addresses cardiovascular disease among LAC and OC minority communities

With a $17.9 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health, a first of its kind center has been established to address health inequities that lead to cardiovascular diseases in low-income and minority groups within the greater Los Angeles and Orange County region. The center is a collaboration between the University of California, Los Angeles, and Irvine campuses, and for the next five years will study the factors that cause hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney disease and other heart-related disease, in the highly diverse region of Southern California whose combined population is more than 13 million.

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