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Is the level of education associated with cardiac dysfunction and future hospital admission for CHF?
Is the level of education associated with cardiac dysfunction and future hospital admission for CHF?
Level of education is an independent predictor of cardiac dysfunction and future heart failure hospitalization, highlighting the need for strategies to reduce health inequalities.
Lower education was associated with cardiac dysfunction and CHF hospitalization; hypothesis-generating for socioeconomic interventions beyond traditional risk factors.
In this cohort study, the level of education was associated with cardiac dysfunction and predicted future hospital admission for CHF. Only a minor part of the excess risk was mediated through traditional cardiovascular risk factors. Strategies to reduce this inequality should be strengthened.
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