Influence of Neighborhood Conditions on Recurrent Hospital Readmissions in Patients with Heart Failure: A Cohort Study - 26/08/22
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Abstract |
Purpose |
This study examined how certain aspects of residential neighborhood conditions (ie, observed built environment, census-based area-level poverty, and perceived disorder) affect readmission in urban patients with heart failure.
Methods |
A total of 400 patients with heart failure who were discharged alive from an urban-university teaching hospital were enrolled. Data were collected about readmissions during a 2-year follow-up. The impact of residential neighborhood conditions on readmissions was examined with adjustment for 7 blocks of covariates: 1) patient demographic characteristics; 2) comorbidities; 3) clinical characteristics; 4) depression; 5) perceived stress; 6) health behaviors; and 7) hospitalization characteristics.
Results |
A total of 83.3% of participants were readmitted. Participants from high-poverty census tracts (≥20%) were at increased risk of readmission compared with those from census tracts with <10% poverty (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.53; 95% confidence interval: 1.03-2.27; P < .05) when adjusted for demographic characteristics. None of the built environmental or perceived neighborhood conditions were associated with the risk of readmission. The poverty-related risk of readmission was reduced to nonsignificance after including diabetes (HR: 1.33) and hypertension (HR: 1.35) in the models.
Conclusions |
The effect of high poverty is partly explained by high rates of hypertension and diabetes in these areas. Improving diabetes and blood pressure control or structural aspects of impoverished areas may help reduce hospital readmissions.
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Funding: This study was funded by grant 5R01HL119286 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland. |
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Conflicts of Interest: None. |
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Authorship: All authors had access to the data and a role in writing this manuscript. |
Vol 135 - N° 9
P. 1116 - septembre 2022 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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