Association Between Historical Neighborhood Redlining and Cardiovascular Outcomes Among US Veterans With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In the 1930s, the government-sponsored Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) established maps of US neighborhoods that identified mortgage risk (grade A [green] characterizing lowest-risk neighborhoods in the US through mechanisms that transcend traditional risk factors to grade D [red] characterizing highest risk). This practice led to disinvestments and segregation in neighborhoods considered redlined. Very few studies have targeted whether there is an association between redlining and cardiovascular disease.

Objective

To evaluate whether redlining is associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes in US veterans.

Design, setting, and participants

In this longitudinal cohort study, US veterans were followed up (January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019) for a

SUBMITTER: Deo SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10336624 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature