How neighborhood and personal factors shape heart health after cancer
Official title: Multi-level drivers of cardiovascular health during cancer survivorship
Funded at Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ · NIH-11377241 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This project looks at how neighborhood conditions and personal socioeconomic factors relate to heart disease risk in adults who are long-term cancer survivors.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R37 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (New York, United States) |
| Project start | May 1, 2024 |
| Project end | April 30, 2029 |
| Funding year | 2026 |
| Award (this year) | $661,746 |
| NIH project number | 5R37CA288492-03 |
| Project ID | NIH-11377241 on NIH RePORTER |
Who could benefit from this research
✓Could help
Adults who have had cancer and are at least five years past their diagnosis—including older adults (65+)—are the ideal candidates for this research.
✕Less likely to help
People currently in active cancer treatment, those less than five years from diagnosis, children, or people without a history of cancer are unlikely to be eligible or to benefit directly from this project.
What this research studies
You would be considered as part of a community-based group of about 8,000 adults who survived cancer for five years or more. Researchers will link information from a large national cohort (REGARDS) to cancer registries through the Virtual Pooled Registry Cancer Linkage System (VPR-CLS) to combine health, cancer, and neighborhood data. They will compare area-level measures (like local education, unemployment, and public health resources) and individual socioeconomic status with later heart outcomes such as coronary heart disease, stroke, and heart failure. The work uses existing medical and registry records over time to see which social and place-based factors are tied to worse heart health after cancer.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this work could point to social and neighborhood targets for programs or policies that reduce heart disease risk in cancer survivors.
How similar studies have gone: Prior studies have linked socioeconomic and neighborhood factors to heart disease in the general population, but applying linked cohort and cancer-registry data specifically to long-term cancer survivors is relatively new.
Where this research is happening
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Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
New York, United States Active
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Pinheiro, Laura C — Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ
- Study coordinator: Pinheiro, Laura C
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About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page.