Education-related variation in coronary procedure rates and the contribution of private health care in Australia: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Contemporary Australian evidence on socioeconomic variation in secondary cardiovascular disease (CVD) care, a possible contributor to inequalities in cardiovascular disease outcomes, is lacking. This study examined the relationship between education, an individual-level indicator of socioeconomic position, and receipt of angiography and revascularisation procedures following incident hospitalisation for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or angina, and the role of private care in this relationship.

Methods

Participants aged ≥45 from the New South Wales population-based 45 and Up Study with no history of prior ischaemic heart disease hospitalised for AMI or angina were followed for receipt of angiography or revascularisation within 30 days of hospital admission, asc

SUBMITTER: Hughes V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7427777 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature