Is lower educational attainment associated with higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the United States adult population?
Lower educational attainment is an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, highlighting the need to incorporate social determinants of health into mortality risk prediction algorithms.
Lower educational attainment is independently associated with increased risk of all-cause and CVD mortality in both the total and ASCVD populations, with the highest risk observed for individuals with < HS education. Future efforts to understand persistent disparities in CVD and all-cause mortality should pay close attention to the role of education, and include educational attainment as an independent predictor in mortality risk prediction algorithms.
Khan et al. (2023) studied this question.