Social Determinants of Health and Disparities in Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy Optimization for Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fewer than 20% of eligible patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction receive all 4 pillars of guideline-directed medical therapy. Understanding disparities by race, ethnicity, sex, and adverse social determinants of health is necessary to equitably optimize quadruple therapy.

Methods

Utilizing the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure registry, we examined associations between race and ethnicity, sex, and adverse social determinants of health (insurance type and documented social need [any barrier to accessing health care]) with quadruple therapy optimization (QTO) in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction hospitalized between July 1, 2021, and September 30, 2023, with complete medication data at di

SUBMITTER: Jacobs JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11753948 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature