A recent study found that SDoH can impact mortality and that demographic and regional health disparities are linked to increased mortality risk of premature heart attacks.
This variability in heart attack mortality was impacted by there race, gender, and region where the individual lived.
Although premature heart attacks in the US declined by 52% between 1999-2019, the study found that certain improvements were slowing for some demographic subgroups, specifically men, black adults, and adults living in rural areas.
Death rates were higher for:
- Men than women (20% vs 7.3%)
- Black adults than white adults (17.5% vs 13.7%)
- Southern states than Western and Northeastern states
- Rural versus urban counties
"For example, low socioeconomic status, higher prevalence of having no health insurance and higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, such as smoking, hyperlipidemia, Type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure, among racial/ethnic minorities – all of these factors widened the health gap for people from diverse racial and ethnic groups"
Safi U. Khan, MD, MS
DeBakey Heart and Vascular Institute at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston
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