Neighborhood Poverty and Incident Heart Failure: an Analysis of Electronic Health Records from 2005 to 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neighborhood-level characteristics, such as poverty, have been associated with risk factors for heart failure (HF), including hypertension and diabetes mellitus. However, the independent association between neighborhood poverty and incident HF remains understudied.

Objective

To evaluate the association between neighborhood poverty and incident HF using a "real-world" clinical cohort.

Design

Retrospective cohort study of electronic health records from a large healthcare network. Individuals' residential addresses were geocoded at the census-tract level and categorized by poverty tertiles based on American Community Survey data (2007-2011).

Participants

Patients from Northwestern Medicine who were 30-80 years, free of cardiovascular disease at index vi

SUBMITTER: Rethy LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642536 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature