Aim Heart failure (HF) constitutes a major public health problem in the USA due to its high
morbidity and mortality. Age at diagnosis of HF would refine burden quantification, budgeting, …

… Socioeconomic variations in heart failure (HF) treatment and outcomes raise … social disparities
in care. Socioeconomic variations in quality of care are paralleled by reports of disparities …

… of heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, and coronary heart … of disparities when
investigating individual classifications of heart disease [10, 50], rendering the study of all-cause heart …

Risk prediction remains the cornerstone of person-alized prevention, seeking to target
interventions to the individuals most likely to benefit. In clinical practice, risk prediction commonly …

… Background: Hispanic and black patients with heart failure have been shown to … disparities
exist among patients with similar access to care, we examined outcomes after heart failure …

Methods Local hospitalization was defined as inpatients staying within hospital service
areas, and distant hospitalization was defined as inpatients traveling outside hospital service …

Heart failure (HF) is a debilitating, progressive disease with high mortality and morbidity 32
that currently afflicts approximately six million adults in the US (8). The prevalence of 33 HF is …

… However, the findings based on rurality potentially expose a new disparity. … First, severity
of the heart failure was not assessed. This is important because worse heart failure outcomes in …

… presenting to the emergency department (ED) with heart failure, there is a disconnect between
the perceived severity of congestive heart failure (CHF) by physicians and the severity as …

… Moreover, our results demonstrate that racial disparities in quality of care do not exist for
all clinical conditions and thereby underscore the need to study patterns of care for individual …