Incidence and Perception of Heart Disease Risk Markers                                                  

 

 

                              

Heart Disease Risk Perception. The perception of coronary artery disease risk in college students vs. cardiac patients and its relationship to actual coronary disease risk markers.

Principal Investigators:

bulletJohn Green, Ed.D., Ph.D., FACSM  -  faculty director of project, principal investigator
bulletThomas Meade, M.D.  (Scott & White Clinic - College Station)
bulletWade Womack, M.S.  - Co PI - phlebotomist 
bulletSteve Crouse, Ph.D., FACSM - laboratory supervisor

Research Associates:

bulletSteve Martin, M.S.
bulletRose Schmitz, M.S. 
bulletKirstin Brekken-Shea, M.S.
bulletSandy Kimbrough, Ph.D.
bulletRod Peterson, M.S.

 

This study is designed to determine how college students and heart disease patients perceive their risk for developing coronary artery disease and how this perception is related to the actual incidence and prevalence of coronary disease risk markers.  The data will also be used to develop a structural equation model for coronary artery disease risk perception in these two populations and to investigate the relationship between risk markers and various  demographics.

Wade Womack collecting blood for lipid risk analysis