The impact of neighborhood social disadvantage on abdominal aortic aneurysm severity and management.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Recent studies have highlighted socioeconomic disparities in the severity and management of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) disease. However, these studies focus on individual measures of social disadvantage such as income and insurance status. The area deprivation index (ADI), a validated measure of neighborhood deprivation, provides a more comprehensive assessment of social disadvantage. Therefore, we examined the impact of ADI on AAA severity and its management.

Methods

We identified all patients who underwent endovascular or open repair of an AAA in the Vascular Quality Initiative registry between 2003 and 2020. An ADI score of 1 to 100 was assigned to each patient based on their residential zip code, with higher ADI scores corresponding with increasing depriva

SUBMITTER: Mota L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10038823 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature