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Article: Economic status affects risk of heart disease. (American Heart Association finds higher death rates from heart disease and stroke among poor and disadvantaged people) (Brief Article)
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- November 15, 1993
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Better educated and wealthier Americans are less likely than the poor and disadvantaged to die of heart disease or stroke, an American Heart Association review has concluded.
Thy study found that people earning $5,000 a year or less had twice the cardiovascular mortality rate of those earning $50,000 or more, and that people with at least a high school education had lower death rates than those with less of an ...