Is socioeconomic status associated with stroke incidence, prevalence, mortality, and worldwide burden?
Socioeconomic status remains strongly associated with stroke burden globally, highlighting the need for targeted screening and preventive strategies in low-SES populations.
Almost half of stroke-related deaths are attributable to poor management of modifiable risk factors, and thus potentially preventable. We should appreciate societal barriers in lower-SES groups to design tailored preventive strategies. Despite improvements in general health knowledge, access to healthcare, and preventative strategies, SES is still strongly associated with modifiable risk factors and stroke burden; thus, screening of people from low SES at higher stroke risk is crucial.
Avan et al. (2019) studied this question.
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