Widening or narrowing income inequalities in myocardial infarction? Time trends in life years free of myocardial infarction and after incidence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite substantial improvements in prevention and therapy, myocardial infarction (MI) remains a frequent health event, causing high mortality and serious health impairments. Previous research lacks evidence on how social inequalities in incidence and mortality risks developed over time, and on how these developments affect the lifespan free of MI and after MI in different social subgroups. This study investigates income inequalities in MI-free life years and life years after MI and whether these inequalities widened or narrowed over time.

Methods

The analyses are based on claims data of a large German health insurance provider insuring approximately 2.8 million individuals in the federal state Lower Saxony. Trends in income inequalities in incidence and mortality

SUBMITTER: Tetzlaff J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8709953 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature