Educational Attainment and Cardiovascular Risk Among Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation

•Cardiac rehabilitation participation is linked to cardiovascular risk factor reduction.•Education level can mitigate program efficacy as a social determinant of health.•Patients with a low and high educational attainment experienced cardiovascular risk reduction. We explored whether patient educati...

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Published in:The American journal of cardiology 2023-11, Vol.207, p.465-469
Main Authors: Irani, Suzanne, Brandt, Eric J., Pai, Chih-Wen, Garfein, Joshua, Kline-Rogers, Eva, Rubenfire, Melvyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Angina
Blood pressure
Body composition
Body mass index
cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiovascular disease
Cardiovascular diseases
cardiovascular risk
Editing
Education
Educational attainment
Exercise
Graduate studies
Health care facilities
Health risks
Heart
Lifestyles
Missing data
Mortality
Nutrition
Observational studies
Patients
Physical fitness
Rehabilitation
Risk factors
Socioeconomic factors
Software
Supervision
Triglycerides
Writing
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Summary:•Cardiac rehabilitation participation is linked to cardiovascular risk factor reduction.•Education level can mitigate program efficacy as a social determinant of health.•Patients with a low and high educational attainment experienced cardiovascular risk reduction. We explored whether patient educational attainment impacted changes in cardiovascular risk factors during cardiac rehabilitation (CR). An observational study was conducted using participant data who completed phase 2 of CR from January 2011 to February 2020 at an academic medical center. The patient cohort was referred to CR after a major cardiac event or to outpatients with stable angina. Patients were excluded if they had no recorded food frequency assessment (FFA) score at CR orientation and graduation. The eligible sample of 1,307 patients were further divided: (1) low educational attainment group (
ISSN:0002-9149
1879-1913
DOI:10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.08.105