Community socioeconomic disadvantage and the survival of infants with congenital heart defects

J.E. Kucik, W.N. Nembhard, P. Donohue, O. Devine, Y. Wang, C.S. Minkovitz and T. Burke

American Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 104, issue 11, e150-e157

Abstract: Objectives. We examined the association between survival of infants with severe congenital heart defects (CHDs) and community-level indicators of socioeconomic status. Methods. We identified infants born to residents of Arizona, New Jersey, New York, and Texas between 1999 and 2007 with selected CHDs from 4 population-based, statewide birth defect surveillance programs. We linked data to the 2000 US Census to obtain 11 census tract-level socioeconomic indicators. We estimated survival probabilities and hazard ratios adjusted for individual characteristics. Results. We observed differences in infant survival for 8 community socioeconomic indicators (P

Keywords: congenital heart malformation; demography; epidemiology; health care disparity; human; infant; Kaplan Meier method; mortality; newborn; poverty; proportional hazards model; socioeconomics; statistics and numerical data; survival; United States, Healthcare Disparities; Heart Defects, Congenital; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Poverty; Proportional Hazards Models; Residence Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Survival Analysis; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302099

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