Takeaway
- Incorporating socioeconomic status (SES) alongside traditional cardiovascular risk factors may strengthen efforts at primary prevention and help close equity gaps.
Why this matters
- Socioeconomic deprivation has been linked to higher cardiovascular death and morbidity.
- Some risk scores incorporate it.
- Assessing Cardiovascular Risk Using SIGN (ASSIGN) does.
- Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation 2...