Does low socioeconomic status worsen neurodevelopmental and functional status outcomes in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome?
Low socioeconomic status is associated with worse long-term neurodevelopmental and functional outcomes in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, independent of clinical characteristics.
Among patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, those with low SES have worse neurodevelopmental and functional status outcomes at 6 years. These differences were not explained by other patient or clinical characteristics.
Bucholz et al. (Thu,) studied this question.
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