ArticleThe American journal of cardiology2019
Relation of Living in a "Food Desert" to Recurrent Hospitalizations in Patients With Heart Failure.
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- Socio-economic inequalities and heart failure morbidity and mortality: A systematic review and data synthesis.ESC heart failure · 2025Pooled it
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- Food Environments and Cardiovascular Disease: Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
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- Food Deserts Increase Readmission After Esophagectomy for Cancer: A Multi-institutional Study.The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2023Article
- Translating Intersectionality to Fair Machine Learning in Health Sciences.Nature machine intelligence · 2023Article
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- Measures of Food Inadequacy and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Black Individuals in the US From the Jackson Heart Study.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- The Impact of Health Care Disparities on Patients With Heart Failure.Journal of cardiac failure · 2022Review
- Residing in a food desert is associated with an increased risk of readmission following esophagectomy for cancer.Journal of thoracic disease · 2022Article
- Unequitable Heart Failure Therapy for Black, Hispanic and American-Indian Patients.Cardiac failure review · 2022Review
- Disparities in access to food and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related outcomes: a cross-sectional analysis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2021Article
- Relation of Neighborhood Disadvantage to Heart Failure Symptoms and Hospitalizations.The American journal of cardiology · 2021Article
- Food deserts and cardiovascular health among young adults.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
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Abstract
Food deserts (FD), low-income areas with low access to healthful foods, are associated with higher burden of cardiovascular risk factors. Few studies have examined the impact of FD on clinical outcomes in heart failure (HF). FD status was assessed in 457 HF patients (mean age 55.9 ± 12.5 years; 50.3% Black) using the Food Desert Research Atlas. The Andersen-Gill extension of Cox model was used to examine the association of living in a FD with risk of repeat hospitalization (all-cause and HF-specific). Patients living in a FD were younger (p = 0.01), more likely to be Black (p <0.0001), less educated (p = 0.003), and less likely to have commercial insurance (p = 0.003). During a median follow-up of 827 (506, 1,379) days, death occurred in 60 (13.1%) subjects, and hospitalizations occurred in 262 (57.3%) subjects. There was no difference in the risk of death based on FD status. The overall frequency of all-cause (94.1 vs 63.6 per 100 patient-years) and HF-specific (59.6 vs 30.5 per 100 patient-years) hospitalizations was higher in subjects who lived in a FD. After adjustment for covariates, living in a FD was associated with an increased risk of repeat all-cause (hazard ratio 1.39, 95% confidence interval 1.19 to 1.63; p = 0.03) and HF-specific (hazard ratio 1.30, 95% confidence interval 1.02 to 1.65; p = 0.03) hospitalizations. In conclusion, patients living in a FD have a higher risk of repeat all-cause and HF-specific hospitalization.
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