Education, income, and incident heart failure in post-menopausal women: the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study is to estimate the effect of education and income on incident heart failure (HF) hospitalization among post-menopausal women.

Background

Investigations of socioeconomic status have focused on outcomes after HF diagnosis, not associations with incident HF. We used data from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Trials to examine the association between socioeconomic status levels and incident HF hospitalization.

Methods

We included 26,160 healthy, post-menopausal women. Education and income were self-reported. Analysis of variance, chi-square tests, and proportional hazards models were used for statistical analysis, with adjustment for demographics, comorbid conditions, behavioral factors, and hormone and dietary modification assign

SUBMITTER: Shah RU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3635103 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature