AHA and Wii: A Controversial Relationship:<\/strong> A deal struck between the American Heart Association and Nintendo of America was the subject of a critical news report on ABC’s “Good Morning America<\/a>.” AHA president Clyde Yancy told GMA that Nintendo was giving $1.5 million over 3 years to the AHA, prompting Columbia University’s David Rothman to say: \u201cSooner rather than later, the public is going to understand that this is a commercial transaction.\u201d<\/p>\n The AHA issued a response to the GMA segmen<\/a>t, saying the story gave the wrong impression that the AHA is endorsing all Wii games, even those that are sedentary. The AHA said: “This is not accurate. The AHA and Nintendo logos, along with the statement defining our relationship, ‘Working together to promote physically active play as part of a healthy lifestyle’, will be on boxes for the Wii Fit\u2122 Plus and Wii Sports Resort\u2122 software and for the Wii\u2122 system that plays them beginning this summer.” In the blogosphere, two cardiologists, Dr. Westby Fisher<\/a> and Dr. John Mandrola<\/a>, expressed concern over the AHA’s willingness to partner with Nintendo. A more detailed account of the episode can be found on CardioBrief<\/a>.<\/p>\n Getting With the Guidelines Reduces Disparities in Treatment:<\/strong> Over time, hospitals participating in the “Get With the Guidelines” program not only improved their overall treatment of MI patients but eliminated racial and ethnic disparities of care, according to a report by Mauricio Cohen and colleagues in <\/a>Circulation<\/a>. In an accompanying editorial<\/a>, Nakela Cook asks: \u201cWill achieving 100 percent defect-free care in all patients also eliminate disparities in clinical outcomes, or do we need specific initiatives targeted at contributors or sub-populations to move toward the true elimination of health disparities? The question will not be easy to answer …”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AHA and Wii: A Controversial Relationship: A deal struck between the American Heart Association and Nintendo of America was the subject of a critical news report on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” AHA president Clyde Yancy told GMA that Nintendo was giving $1.5 million over 3 years to the AHA, prompting Columbia University’s David Rothman to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}