Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and mortality after stroke.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Residence in a socioeconomically disadvantaged community is associated with mortality, but the mechanisms are not well understood. We examined whether socioeconomic features of the residential neighborhood contribute to poststroke mortality and whether neighborhood influences are mediated by traditional behavioral and biologic risk factors.

Methods

We used data from the Cardiovascular Health Study, a multicenter, population-based, longitudinal study of adults ≥65 years. Residential neighborhood disadvantage was measured using neighborhood socioeconomic status (NSES), a composite of 6 census tract variables representing income, education, employment, and wealth. Multilevel Cox proportional hazard models were constructed to determine the association of NSES to mortal

SUBMITTER: Brown AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3589286 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature