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ReviewJournal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives2023

Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Heart Failure.

Ranbir S Walia, Robert Mankoff

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Review in Journal of community hospital internal medicine perspectives, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ranbir S WaliaMedical University of the Americas, 41 Petty Rd., Cranbury, NJ, USA.
Robert MankoffMedical University of the Americas, P.O. Box 701, Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure has emerged as a substantial health burden in the United States in the last few decades. This study examined the hypothesis that socioeconomic factors such as education level, social position, employment status, and poverty have a strong confounding influence on the risk for heart failure. To access relevant data, 12 published studies were retrieved from MEDLINE, Google Scholar, and Web of Science. A cross-sectional analysis of the identified studies confirmed that the four socioeconomic factors predisposed individuals to an elevated risk of heart failure-related complications. Despite their interdependencies, educational level, employment status, social position, and poverty independently confounded cardiovascular risk among individuals. Notably, individuals from households with low education were at a higher risk of these diseases. At the same time, households without employed family members were less likely to report cases of heart failure than those with low socioeconomic status. Additionally, individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds faced a greater risk for heart failure complications. The findings from this study found a strong association between socioeconomic status and heart failure risks.

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Cardiovascular diseaseEducational levelEmploymentHeart failurePovertySocioeconomic statusUnemployment

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PMID38596541
PMCPMC11000844

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