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HealthPartners researcher wins 2008 Shepard Award
New England Journal of Medicine article named "Best Paper"
June 17, 2008
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – HealthPartners researcher, Thomas E. Kottke, MD., and his coauthors have won the 2008 Shepard Award for Best Paper in the Assessment and Epidemiology category. The paper was reviewed by scientists from across the Centers for Disease Control and selected for representing the best in medical science.
"This is a great honor to be recognized for our work on this topic," said Dr. Kottke. "I'd like to congratulate all of my colleagues who worked together to make this study possible."
The paper, "Explaining the decrease in U.S. deaths from coronary disease, 1980-2000," was published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine as a Special Article. It has already been highly cited in other literature.
The study looks at how much the decrease in deaths from coronary disease can be attributed to medical and surgical treatments and how much can be attributed to changes in cardiovascular risk factors. The study concluded that about half of the decline may be due to the reduction of major cardiovascular risk factors and about half due to evidence-based medical therapies.
HealthPartners Research Foundation
HealthPartners family of care includes HealthPartners Research Foundation (www.hprf.org). Conducting about 250 research projects each year, the Foundation is dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge through research to improve the health of our members and the community.
About HealthPartners
Founded in 1957, the HealthPartners (www.healthpartners.com) family of healthcare companies serve more than one million medical and dental health plan members nationwide. It is the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation, providing care, coverage, research and education to improve the health of members, patients and the community. For the third year in a row, HealthPartners is rated one of the best commercial health plans in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, NCQA's "America's Best Health Plans 2007" and is ranked "Highest in Member Satisfaction among Commercial Health Plans in the Minnesota-Wisconsin Region" by J.D. Power and Associates.
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