Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Life Expectancy After Acute Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies have been unable to disentangle the negative associations of black race and low socioeconomic status (SES) with long-term outcomes of patients after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Such information could assist in efforts to address both racial and socioeconomic disparities.

Methods and results

We used data from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project, a prospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with AMI with 17 years of follow-up, to evaluate the relationship between race, area-level SES (measured by zip code-level median household income), and life expectancy after AMI. Life expectancy was estimated by using Cox proportional hazards regression with extrapolation using exponential models. Of the 141 095 patients with AMI,

SUBMITTER: Bucholz EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5097251 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature