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Influence of socioeconomic status on rates of advanced heart failure therapies.
Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation 2024 Februrary 25
BACKGROUND: Socioeconomic deprivation is associated with a lower likelihood of referral for advanced heart failure (HF) evaluation, but it is not known whether it influences rates of advanced HF therapies independently of key hemodynamic measures and comorbidity following advanced HF evaluation in a universal healthcare system.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We linked data from a single-center Danish clinical registry of consecutive patients evaluated for advanced HF with patient-level information on socioeconomic status. Patients were divided into groups based on the level of education (low, medium, and high), combined degree of socioeconomic deprivation (low, medium, and high), and household income quartiles. Rates of the combined outcome of left ventricular assist device implantation or heart transplantation (advanced HF therapy) with death as a competing risk were estimated with cumulative incidence functions, and Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, sex, central venous pressure, cardiac index, and comorbidities.
RESULTS: We included 629 patients, median age 53 years, of whom 77% were men. During a median follow-up of 5 years, 179 (28%) underwent advanced HF therapy. The highest level of education was associated with higher rates (high vs. low, adjusted HR 1.81 95% CI 1.14-2.89, p = 0.01), whereas household income quartile groups (Q4 vs. Q1, adjusted HR 1.37 95% CI 0.76-2.47, p=0.30) or groups of combined socioeconomic deprivation (high vs. low degree of deprivation, adjusted HR 0.86 95% CI 0.50-1.46, p = 0.56) were not significantly associated with rates of advanced HF therapy.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with a lower level of education might be disfavored for advanced HF therapies and could require specific attention in the advanced HF care center.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We linked data from a single-center Danish clinical registry of consecutive patients evaluated for advanced HF with patient-level information on socioeconomic status. Patients were divided into groups based on the level of education (low, medium, and high), combined degree of socioeconomic deprivation (low, medium, and high), and household income quartiles. Rates of the combined outcome of left ventricular assist device implantation or heart transplantation (advanced HF therapy) with death as a competing risk were estimated with cumulative incidence functions, and Cox proportional hazards models adjusted for age, sex, central venous pressure, cardiac index, and comorbidities.
RESULTS: We included 629 patients, median age 53 years, of whom 77% were men. During a median follow-up of 5 years, 179 (28%) underwent advanced HF therapy. The highest level of education was associated with higher rates (high vs. low, adjusted HR 1.81 95% CI 1.14-2.89, p = 0.01), whereas household income quartile groups (Q4 vs. Q1, adjusted HR 1.37 95% CI 0.76-2.47, p=0.30) or groups of combined socioeconomic deprivation (high vs. low degree of deprivation, adjusted HR 0.86 95% CI 0.50-1.46, p = 0.56) were not significantly associated with rates of advanced HF therapy.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with a lower level of education might be disfavored for advanced HF therapies and could require specific attention in the advanced HF care center.
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