Health Care Access and Cardiovascular Risk Factor Management Among Working-Age US Adults During the Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low-income working-age US adults disproportionately experienced health care disruptions at the onset of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Little is known about how health care access and cardiovascular risk factor management changed as the pandemic went on or if patterns differed by state Medicaid expansion status.

Methods

Cross-sectional data from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system were used to compare self-reported measures of health care access and cardiovascular risk factor management among US adults aged 18 to 64 years in 2021 (pandemic) to 2019 (prepandemic) using multivariable Poisson regression models. We assessed differential changes between low-income (<138% federal poverty level) and high-income (>400% federal poverty level) working-age

SUBMITTER: Marinacci LX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10872901 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature