Bill Text: IL SR0738 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares April 2024 as Minority Health Month. Urges all Americans to learn their LDL-C level. Urges the Illinois Department of Health to update the State's cardiovascular plan to accelerate quality improvements and measures to achieve improved health outcomes for CVD patients. Urges the Illinois Department of Health to develop campaigns to increase cholesterol tests during the month of April. Urges providers to treat all CVD patients in accordance with American College of Cardiology treatment guidelines.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-18 - Resolution Adopted [SR0738 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SR0738-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION | ||||||
2 | WHEREAS, High cholesterol, also called | ||||||
3 | hypercholesterolemia, is the chronic presence of high levels | ||||||
4 | of cholesterol in the blood that can lead to cardiovascular | ||||||
5 | disease (CVD) and even cardiovascular (CV) events like heart | ||||||
6 | attacks or strokes; and
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7 | WHEREAS, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | ||||||
8 | (CDC) estimates that CVD is arguably the most underappreciated | ||||||
9 | public health crisis of our time; someone in the U.S. has a | ||||||
10 | heart attack every 40 seconds, yet approximately 80% are | ||||||
11 | preventable; and
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12 | WHEREAS, Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), or | ||||||
13 | "bad" cholesterol, is an easily modifiable risk factor for | ||||||
14 | CVD; lower LDL-C is associated with a reduced risk of heart | ||||||
15 | attack and stroke; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Heart disease is the leading cause of death in | ||||||
17 | the U.S. among racial and ethnic minority populations; and
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18 | WHEREAS, The American Heart Association (AHA) has | ||||||
19 | demonstrated that Hispanic Americans are at exceptionally high | ||||||
20 | risk for cardiovascular disease and coronary heart disease, | ||||||
21 | both of which can lead to a stroke or heart attack; and
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1 | WHEREAS, More than 80 million adults have high LDL-C; and
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2 | WHEREAS, The AHA indicates that CVD disproportionately | ||||||
3 | affects minority populations; 52.3% of Hispanic males and | ||||||
4 | 42.7% of Hispanic females over the age of 20 are affected by | ||||||
5 | CVD; 60.1% of Black males and 58.8% of Black females 20 years | ||||||
6 | of age and older have CVD; and
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7 | WHEREAS, The CDC found that one in three deaths in the U.S. | ||||||
8 | is due to heart disease, and this results in more than $216 | ||||||
9 | billion in healthcare costs; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Nearly 60% of middle-aged Hispanic adults have | ||||||
11 | high cholesterol, yet only half are aware of this, according | ||||||
12 | to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical | ||||||
13 | Association; and
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14 | WHEREAS, A study published in the American Journal of | ||||||
15 | Preventative Cardiology found cholesterol testing, an | ||||||
16 | important preventive measure for reducing the risk of | ||||||
17 | cardiovascular disease, declined during the COVID pandemic; | ||||||
18 | and
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19 | WHEREAS, The resources needed to bend the curve in CVD | ||||||
20 | exist, yet 71% of hypercholesterolemia patients at high risk |
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1 | of a CV event never achieve recommended LDL-C treatment | ||||||
2 | guideline thresholds; and
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3 | WHEREAS, The LDL-C Action Summit, a consortium of the | ||||||
4 | nation's leading cardiovascular stakeholder groups, seeks to | ||||||
5 | cut cardiovascular events in half by 2030; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The CDC's Million Hearts program seeks to improve | ||||||
7 | access and quality of care to reduce heart disease, stroke, | ||||||
8 | and death; and
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9 | WHEREAS, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | ||||||
10 | Office of Minority Health recognizes April as National | ||||||
11 | Minority Health Month; therefore, be it
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12 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL | ||||||
13 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we declare April 2024 | ||||||
14 | as "Minority Health Month" in the State of Illinois; and be it | ||||||
15 | further
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16 | RESOLVED, That we urge all Americans to learn their LDL-C | ||||||
17 | level; and be it further
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18 | RESOLVED, That we urge the Illinois Department of Public | ||||||
19 | Health to update the State's cardiovascular plan to accelerate | ||||||
20 | quality improvements and measures to achieve improved health |
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1 | outcomes for CVD patients; and be it further
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2 | RESOLVED, That we urge the Illinois Department of Public | ||||||
3 | Health to develop campaigns to increase cholesterol tests | ||||||
4 | during the month of April; and be it further
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5 | RESOLVED, That we urge providers to treat all CVD patients | ||||||
6 | in accordance with American College of Cardiology treatment | ||||||
7 | guidelines; and be it further
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