Clear link between income and survival after cardiac surgery
The higher a patient’s income, the better are his or her chances of surviving cardiac surgery in both the short and long term. This is the finding of a new registry study by researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).It has long been known that socioeconomic factors such as income are linked to the risk of cardiovascular disease; what is less researched, however, is the role these factors play in post-cardiac surgery prognoses. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have conducted a registry study showing that
