Changes in economic prosperity, cardiovascular mortality

What The Study Did:


County-level mortality and economic data were used to investigate the association between changes in economic prosperity and rates of cardiovascular mortality among middle-age U.S. adults from 2010 to 2017.

Authors:


Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2020.26141)

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