McKnight’s Senior Living April 19, 2024
(HealthDay News) — Only higher-income populations experienced improvements in cardiovascular health from 1988 to 2018, according to a study published online April 3 in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
Nicholas K. Brownell, MD, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues examined 30-year trends in cardiovascular health by income. The analysis included data from 26,633 participants (aged 40 to 75 years) in the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1988 to 2018) stratified by poverty-to-income ratio (PIR) category.
The researchers found that from 1988-1994 to 2015-2018, the mean 10-year pooled cohort equation (PCE) risk improved from 7.8 to 6.4%. However, the improvement was limited to the two highest-income categories (10-year PCE risk for PIR 5: 7.7 to 5.1%;...
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