Greater socioeconomic deprivation (5th versus 1st quintile) was associated with a 27 % increased risk.
One in four patients develop heart failure within four years of a first heart attack, according to a study in nearly 25,000 patients presented today at Heart Failure 2016 and the 3rd World Congress on Acute Heart Failure by Dr Johannes Gho, a cardiology resident at the University Medical Center Utrecht, in Utrecht, the Netherlands.1 Risk factors included older age,
greater socioeconomic deprivation, and comorbidities such as diabetes.
Not exact matches
Hospital admission rates are 55 per cent higher in some areas than in others because of a
greater prevalence of conditions such as diabetes, alcoholism, dementia and
socioeconomic deprivation.
Seniors reported having grown up in various
socioeconomic backgrounds and parental education levels, and experiencing low household income (41 %), family separation (38 %), and food
deprivation (31 %) mainly during War World II, other regional wars, and the
Great Depression in the US.
As an indicator of
socioeconomic status, Index of Multiple
Deprivation (IMD) scores, based on the English Indices of Deprivation, 47 were assigned to each child based on their reported home postcode, where higher scores indicate greater levels of d
Deprivation (IMD) scores, based on the English Indices of
Deprivation, 47 were assigned to each child based on their reported home postcode, where higher scores indicate greater levels of d
Deprivation, 47 were assigned to each child based on their reported home postcode, where higher scores indicate
greater levels of
deprivationdeprivation.