General Information

CVRN objectives include:

The Cardiovascular Research Network (CVRN), initially sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), is a national collaborative and resource that will leverage expertise, populations, and data sources from a consortium of currently 14 geographically diverse e National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), is a national collaborative and resource that will leverage expertise, populations, and data sources from a consortium of currently 14 geographically diverse health plans (11 million members) in the United States with integrated research divisions. Our overall goals are to:

• Provide more robust cardiovascular disease and related health care surveillance data than currently available
• Promote research on clinical practice and quality of care
• Enable assessment of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies and clinical guidelines on cardiovascular disease and risk factor incidence, prevalence, clinical management, and patient outcomes over time
• Facilitate research on determinants of disease for uncommon disease phenotypes
• Create opportunities for interested non-network researchers to collaborate with CVRN investigators on high-priority cardiovascular issues
• Promote research on determinants of disease for uncommon disease phenotypes