Cardiovascular care in rural America: challenges, insights, and strategies for meaningful improvement

Affiliations

¹ Interventional Cardiology, The Jewish Hospital- Mercy Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Electronic address: majmal@mercy.com.
² Core Faculty Internal Medicine Residency Program, Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital, Fairfield, OH, USA.
³ Interventional and Structural Cardiology, Banner University Medical Center Tucson, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Senior Core Faculty, Cardiology Fellowship Program, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, AZ, USA. Electronic address: mtcorban@arizona.edu.

Editorial

Muhammad Ajmal et al. Am J Med. 2026 Mar.

. 2026 Mar;139(3):250-252.

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2025.09.004. Epub 2025 Sep 25.

¹ Interventional Cardiology, The Jewish Hospital- Mercy Health, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Electronic address: majmal@mercy.com.
² Core Faculty Internal Medicine Residency Program, Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital, Fairfield, OH, USA.
³ Interventional and Structural Cardiology, Banner University Medical Center Tucson, Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology), Senior Core Faculty, Cardiology Fellowship Program, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, AZ, USA. Electronic address: mtcorban@arizona.edu.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of competing interest No conflict of interest for any author. All authors had access to the data and contributed to the manuscript.