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What are the demographic and financial predictors of cardiac rehabilitation initiation and adherence in a multiracial urban population?
What are the demographic and financial predictors of cardiac rehabilitation initiation and adherence in a multiracial urban population?
Socioeconomic factors, specifically lack of insurance and copayment requirements, along with nonwhite race and younger age, are significant barriers to cardiac rehabilitation initiation and adherence.
Disparities by race, insurance, and copayment limit CR uptake; hypothesis-generating for equity interventions in urban populations.
In a multiracial population, nonwhite patients and those who did not have insurance were less likely to initiate CR. Younger age and requirement of copayment were independent predictors for poor adherence. Increasing medical insurance coverage and eliminating copayment may improve the participation and adherence of CR.
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