McKnight’s Senior Living March 29, 2024
(HealthDay News) — People who live in areas with social and environmental adversities have an increased risk for developing heart disease and stroke, according to a study published online March 27 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Sumanth Khadke, MD, from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center in Burlington, MA, and colleagues examined the combined effect of social and environmental exposure on cardiovascular risks. The 2022 Environmental Justice Index, socio-environmental justice index, and environmental burden module ranks of census tracts were all used in the analysis.
The researchers found that compared with quartile 1, quartile 4 of the Environmental Justice Index was associated with a higher rate of coronary artery disease (rate ratio [RR], 1.684)...
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