The health effects of housing instability and its association with congestive heart failure.

ABSTRACT: Housing instability is a critical social determinant of health (SDOH). Prior studies of homelessness and congestive heart failure (CHF) have looked primarily at the association between socioeconomic status and hospitalization. The association between housing instability and the development of CHF has not been fully investigated. We examined data from 4,408 participants with annual household income below $50,000 in the All of Us Research Program, a national cohort study enriched for individuals underrepresented in biomedical research. Within the inceptive survey, participants were asked if they were worried or concerned about not having a place to live in the past 6 months. We assessed the association between this self-reported housing concern and CHF occurrence, finding that individuals wi

SUBMITTER: Novin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11994351 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature