State-level minimum wage and heart disease death rates in the United States, 1980-2015: A novel application of marginal structural modeling.

ABSTRACT: Despite substantial declines since the 1960's, heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States (US) and geographic disparities in heart disease mortality have grown. State-level socioeconomic factors might be important contributors to geographic differences in heart disease mortality. This study examined the association between state-level minimum wage increases above the federal minimum wage and heart disease death rates from 1980 to 2015 among 'working age' individuals aged 35-64 years in the US. Annual, inflation-adjusted state and federal minimum wage data were extracted from legal databases and annual state-level heart disease death rates were obtained from CDC Wonder. Although most minimum wage and health studies to date use conventional regression models, we em

SUBMITTER: Van Dyke ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5970990 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature