Researchers from University Hospitals demonstrated among the many predictors of cardiovascular disease - one of them is whether your address falls in one of the neighborhoods that long ago was affected by discriminatory lending practices known as redlining
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The idea that people of low-income experience shorter life spans and higher rates of chronic disease does not necessarily come as much of a surprise. So it’s not shocking that living in a low-income neighborhood would also increase your chances of illness and premature death.
And that’s just what Al-Kindi and the other researchers at UH’s Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute found: a direct relationship between redlined areas and heart health. Patients with the greatest number of cardiac risk factors and worst health outcomes were living today in the same geographic areas designated with the lowest lending scores many decades earlier.
This isn’t the first time poor health outcomes have been connected to redlining. Earlier research had shown that residents who live in formerly redlined areas have decreased lifespans, increased infant mortality and pre-term birth rates, and increased incidence of a host of chronic diseases, including diabetes, high blood pressure, mental health disorders, asthma, and some cancers.
for cardiovascular risk factors like smoking, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, as well as known incidence of stroke, chronic kidney disease, and coronary artery disease. “There is so much that we don’t understand about this, but both your choices and the available resources around you determines this,” Al-Kindi said. “It absolutely matters where you live.”
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