Does lower socioeconomic status associate with impaired functional capacity, abnormal heart rate recovery, and all-cause mortality?
Impaired functional capacity and abnormal heart rate recovery mediate a major proportion of the association between lower socioeconomic status and mortality.
Impaired functional capacity and abnormal heart rate recovery were strongly associated with lower SES and accounted for a major proportion of the correlation between SES and mortality. Efforts to modify these clinical features among patients with low SES may narrow disparities in mortality.
Mehdi H. Shishehbor (Tue,) studied this question.