Long-Term Survival After Acute Myocardial Infarction Is Lower in More Deprived Neighborhoods | Zendy

Cathryn Tonne | Zendy; Joel Schwartz | Zendy; Murray A. Mittleman | Zendy; Steve Melly | Zendy; Helen Suh | Zendy; Robert J. Goldberg | Zendy

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Long-Term Survival After Acute Myocardial Infarction Is Lower in More Deprived Neighborhoods

Author(s) -

Cathryn Tonne,

Joel Schwartz,

Murray A. Mittleman,

Steve Melly,

Helen Suh,

Robert J. Goldberg

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.104.496174

Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , demography , census , socioeconomic status , proportional hazards model , case fatality rate , census tract , incidence (geometry) , gerontology , population , epidemiology , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics

As part of the Worcester Heart Attack Study, a community-wide study examining changes over time in the incidence and long-term case-fatality rates of greater Worcester, Mass, residents hospitalized with confirmed acute myocardial infarction (AMI), we investigated the hypothesis that census tract-level socioeconomic position is an important predictor of survival after hospital discharge for AMI, after adjusting for demographic and clinical characteristics.

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