- An observational study reports that adults in the United States who live in rural areas have a 19% overall higher risk of developing heart failure compared to adults who live in urban areas.
- Black men who live in rural areas of the United States have a 34% higher risk of developing heart failure than their urban counterparts.
- Black women had an 18% higher risk compared to Black women in urban areas.
- White women living in rural areas had a 22% increased risk of heart failure compared to white women in urban areas.
In 2020 about 46 million people in the United States, about 14% of the population, lived in rural areas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Rural and urban deaths per 100,000 population were about equal in the 1980s, but by 2016 there were about 135 excess deaths per 100,000 in rural areas compared to urban ones, according to a 2019
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The researchers say their study is the first to look at the link between living in rural America and first-time cases of heart failure.
Dr. Véronique Roger, the study’s corresponding author and a senior investigator with the Epidemiology and Community…
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