Search Tag: socioeconomic status

Cardiology Management

Sleep-disturbances-socioeconomic-inequalities-and-cardiovascular-disease

2019 01 Dec

Insufficient sleep is one reason why disadvantaged groups have more heart disease. That’s the finding of a study published today in Cardiovascular Research, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). People with lower socioeconomic status sleep less for a variety of reasons: they may do several jobs, work in shifts, live in noisy environments,...Read more

Cardiology Management

The-rich-do-better-after-heart-surgery

2015 27 Oct

According to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology , survival after cardiac surgery is dependant in part on the income of the patient.  People living in the lower socio-economic bracket have higher mortality risk mainly due to a higher burden of cardiovascular disease but because the association between income and...Read more