Healthcare entity
Source depth averages 2.5 original sources per story, versus 3.3 across the same-window beat baseline. American Heart Association is most often covered alongside American College of Cardiology, which appears in 1 of these 4 stories. The 32-day window averages about 0.9 stories each week.
Last mentioned: Mar 25, 2026
Entity pulse
Coverage balance Positive coverage leads. Positive coverage exceeds negative coverage by 25 percentage points.
Figures are computed live from our source-verified story record — see our methodology for how impact and sentiment are derived.
Source depth averages 2.5 original sources per story, versus 3.3 across the same-window beat baseline. American Heart Association is most often covered alongside American College of Cardiology, which appears in 1 of these 4 stories. The 32-day window averages about 0.9 stories each week. medical-devices accounts for 2 of the 4 tracked stories, while 2 other categories carry the remainder. Their average consequence score of 5.5 runs below the beat's 5.9 for that window. American Heart Association appears in 4 tracked Healthcare stories published from February 22, 2026 through March 25, 2026.
Computed from the 4 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 651 Healthcare stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering American Heart Association. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
Regulatory Shift
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Widespread Recognition
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Philadelphia Sighting
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Clinical Advocacy
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AI Integration
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RSPCA Early Warning
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Initial BAC Correlation Studies
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Source: Ben Cost (zm) · Ben Cost (au)
Sky Labs has announced its formal support for the American Heart Association’s Established Investigator Award for Clinical Hypertension. The partnership aims to bridge the gap between wearable health technology and rigorous clinical research in blood pressure management.
Source: manilatimes.net · finanznachrichten.de
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Source: wdsu.com · gulfcoastnewsnow.com
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Source: theobserver.ca · clintonnewsrecord.com
American Heart Association is linked from 4 stories on this site, each scored at or above our 35% relevance threshold — see how these pages are built.
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