Sumanth Khadke, Ashish Kumar, Sadeer Al-Kindi, Sanjay Rajagopalan, Yixin Kong, Khurram Nasir, Javaria Ahmad, Gary Adamkiewicz, Scott Delaney, Anju Nohria, Sourbha S Dani, Sarju Ganatra
BACKGROUND: While the impacts of social and environmental exposure on cardiovascular risks are often reported individually, the combined effect is poorly understood. METHODS AND RESULTS: Using the 2022 Environmental Justice Index, socio-environmental justice index and environmental burden module ranks of census tracts were divided into quartiles (quartile 1, the least vulnerable census tracts; quartile 4, the most vulnerable census tracts). Age-adjusted rate ratios (RRs) of coronary artery disease, strokes, and various health measures reported in the Prevention Population-Level Analysis and Community Estimates data were compared between quartiles using multivariable Poisson regression...
March 27, 2024: Journal of the American Heart Association