Yingxuan Zhu, Yang Wang, Bangdiwala Shrikant, Lap Ah Tse, Yanyan Zhao, Zhiguang Liu, Chuangshi Wang, Quanyong Xiang, Sumathy Rangarajan, Sidong Li, Weida Liu, Mengya Li, Aiying Han, Jinhua Tang, Bo Hu, Salim Yusuf, Wei Li
BACKGROUND: Although socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular health has long been a public health focus, the differences in cardiovascular-disease burden and mortality between people with different socioeconomic statuses has yet to be adequately addressed. We aimed to assess the effects of socioeconomic status, measured via three socioeconomic-status indicators (ie, education, occupation, and household wealth and a composite socioeconomic-status disparity index, on mortality and cardiovascular-disease burden (ie, incidence, mortality, and admission to hospital) in China...
December 2023: Lancet. Public Health