Does lower income status increase the risk of sudden cardiac arrest in young adults?
Lower socioeconomic status is an independent risk factor for sudden cardiac arrest in young adults, independent of traditional lifestyle and metabolic risk factors.
Lower income status, particularly receipt of medical aid, was independently associated with higher SCA risk among young adults. Socioeconomic disparities in SCA risk were not fully explained by lifestyle or metabolic factors.
Jeong et al. (Tue,) studied this question.