Socioeconomic position and one-year mortality risk among patients with heart failure: A nationwide register-based cohort study

摘要

Aims: We sought to determine whether socioeconomic position affects the survival of patients with heart failure treated in a national healthcare system. Methods: We linked national Danish registers, identified 145,690 patients with new-onset heart failure between 2000 and 2015, and obtained information on education and income levels. We analysed differences in survival by income quartile and educational level using multiple Cox regression, stratified by sex. We standardised one-year mortality risks according to income level by age, year of diagnosis, cohabitation status, educational level, comorbidities and medical treatment of all patients. We standardised one-year mortality risk according to educational level by age and year of diagnosis.