Cardiovascular risk factors in immigrants: an intersectional real world data approach to understand health inequalities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are shaped by social determinants of health. Lower CVRFs frequency in immigrants, as reported in the literature, may oversimplify a group affected by multiple and intersecting social inequities. Using the framework of intersectionality, we aim to analyse the prevalence of CVRFs using Real-World Data (RWD), in immigrants to better understand how overlapping social identities shape health outcomes.

Methods

A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in the immigrant population of the CARhES cohort (45,861) a population cohort of RWD of CVRFs' patients. In order to characterise the most privileged and oppressed immigrant groups, we considered the impact of country of origin, age group, gender, income level and place of resi

SUBMITTER: Collazo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12595880 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature