Neighborhood Poverty and Incident Heart Failure: an Analysis of Electronic Health Records from 2005 to 2018.
Leah B RethyMegan E McCabeKiarri N KershawFaraz S AhmadTara LaguLindsay R PoolSadiya S KhanPublished in: Journal of general internal medicine (2021)
In a large healthcare network, incident HF was associated with neighborhood poverty independent of demographic and clinical risk factors. Neighborhood-level interventions may be needed to complement individual-level strategies to prevent and curb the growing burden of HF.