Inequalities in Income and Education Are Associated With Survival Differences After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Nationwide Observational Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite the acknowledged importance of socioeconomic factors as regards cardiovascular disease onset and survival, the relationship between individual-level socioeconomic factors and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is not established. Our aim was to investigate whether socioeconomic variables are associated with 30-day survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Methods

We linked data from the Swedish Registry for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with individual-level data on socioeconomic factors (ie, educational level and disposable income) from Statistics Sweden. Confounding and mediating variables included demographic factors, comorbidity, and Utstein resuscitation variables. Outcome was 30-day survival. Multiple modified Poisson regression was u

SUBMITTER: Jonsson M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663522 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature