Neighbourhood Deprivation and Heart Failure Outcomes: A Cohort Study
ABSTRACT:
Study at a glance
- Publication type: Retrospective cohort study
- What it examined: Using electronic health records from 42,279 adults hospitalised with heart failure, this study examined whether neighbourhood deprivation helped explain racial differences in one-year readmission or all-cause mortality.
- Key point: The composite outcome occurred in 32.92% of non-Hispanic Black patients and 27.69% of non-Hispanic White patients in this cohort. Counterfactual modelling suggested that equalising the distribution of neighbourhood deprivation could reduce the outcome rate for non-Hispanic Black patients by 1.31 percentage points.
Why it matters
This observational analysis cannot establish causality, but it shows why social context belongs in discussions of equity, access and heart failure outcomes.
Source
Huang W, et al. Neighborhood Deprivation and Racial Disparities in Heart Failure Outcomes: A Counterfactual Approach. JACC Adv. 2025. PMID: 40579056. View the PubMed record.
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