Social Determinants of Health and 90-Day Mortality After Hospitalization for Heart Failure in the REGARDS Study.

ABSTRACT: Background Outcomes following heart failure (HF) hospitalizations are poor, with 90-day mortality rates of 15% to 20%. Although prior studies found associations between individual social determinants of health (SDOH) and post-discharge mortality, less is known about how an individuals' total burden of SDOH affects 90-day mortality. Methods and Results We included participants of the REGARDS (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke) Study who were Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥65 years discharged alive after an adjudicated HF hospitalization. Guided by the Healthy People 2020 Framework, we examined 9 SDOH. First, we examined age-adjusted associations between each SDOH and 90-day mortality; those associated with 90-day mortality were used to create an SDOH count. Next, we dete

SUBMITTER: Sterling MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7428585 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature