Counting Patients Social Determinants Of Health Could Help Prevent Fatal Heart Attacks
Specifically, researchers were looking at something called social determinants of health, and patients with three or more social determinants of health had a 67% greater risk of death from coronary heart disease than those without similar obstacles to health care. The results of the study, using data from the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) project, were published in the journal Circulation in January, 2021. The social determinants of health researchers focused on included:...