Low educational attainment is associated with higher all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in the United States adult population

• Main Authors: Najah Khan (Author), Zulqarnain Javed (Author), Isaac Acquah (Author), Kobina Hagan (Author), Madiha Khan (Author), Javier Valero-Elizondo (Author), Ryan Chang (Author), Umair Javed (Author), Mohamad B. Taha (Author), Michael J. Blaha (Author), Salim S. Virani (Author), Garima Sharma (Author), Ron Blankstein (Author), Martha Gulati (Author), Elias Mossialos (Author), Adnan A. Hyder (Author), Miguel Cainzos Achirica (Author), Khurram Nasir (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction Educational attainment is an important social determinant of health (SDOH) for cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the association between educational attainment and all-cause and CVD mortality has not been longitudinally evaluated on a population-level in the US, especially...