Social Vulnerability and Long-Term Cardiovascular Outcomes After COVID-19 Hospitalization: An Analysis of the American Heart Association COVID-19 Registry Linked With Medicare Claims Data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 from socioeconomically vulnerable communities are at risk for in-hospital cardiovascular events. However, the association of socioeconomic vulnerability and outcomes after hospitalization is uncertain.

Methods and results

American Heart Association COVID-19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry hospitalizations between March 1, 2020, and June 30, 2022, linked with Medicare fee-for-service claims, were analyzed. We used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Social Vulnerability Index to ascertain county-level and Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibility to ascertain patient-level social vulnerability. We evaluated the association between social vulnerability and a composite of myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, venous throm

SUBMITTER: Fakhraei R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12132811 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature