heart disease


June 9, 2023

UAMS Researchers Find High Rates of Diabetes, Heart Disease among Marshallese

David Wise

Doctor with Marshallese Patient

FAYETTEVILLE — Residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) face strikingly high rates of diabetes and heart disease, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Office of Community Health & Research. The RMI has one of the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world. Diabetes and…


November 10, 2015

Daughter Sees Aging Through Mother’s Eyes

Ben Boulden

Nov. 10, 2015 | When Denise Henderson contacted the UAMS Schmieding Caregiver Program, she was searching for help in knowing the best way to care for her mother, who had trouble seeing and breathing. Henderson’s mother, who lived in Hot Springs, had glaucoma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a disease in which a person’s internal…


January 20, 2012

UAMS Among National Leaders in Screening Newborns for Critical Congenital Heart Disease

David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK – The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has begun routine screenings for critical congenital heart defects in newborns and is leading the effort to teach other hospitals the screening method via telehealth.