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Your longevity after a heart attack may depend on where you live

Black patients from disadvantaged neighborhoods were significantly more likely to die within five years of surviving a heart attack compared with Black heart attack patients from wealthier neighborhoods and white patients of any socioeconomic means who survive a heart attack, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology s 70th Annual Scientific Session.

Poorer Neighborhoods Pose Risks for Black Patients After Acute MI

May 05, 2021 The combination of living in a disadvantaged neighborhood and being Black significantly raises the risk of death in the years after being discharged for an acute MI, new research shows. “Patients from worse neighborhoods tended to have worse outcomes after acute myocardial infarction. This was seen across all races,” the study’s lead author, Jesse Goitia, MD (Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, CA), told TCTMD. “What particularly stood out was that African-American patients tended to have worse outcomes, but African-American patients from good neighborhoods did not. It seemed that the neighborhood was the mediating factor.” “It makes sense,” Quinn Capers IV, MD (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas), chair of the ACC’s diversity and inclusion committee, commented to TCTMD. The study adds evidence, he said, to support the idea that the same social determinants of health that increase risks for having an MI things like crowde

Report: LA Again Ranks As Most Ozone-Polluted Region In Nation

By City News Service Apr 21, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area again ranked as the most ozone-polluted region in the nation, joining six other California areas on the list of the 10 worst cities for ozone in the United States, according to an American Lung Association report released today. Los Angeles has topped the ozone-pollution list for 21 of the 22 years the Lung Association has produced the “State of the Air report. The San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad region ranked seventh on this year s list. Los Angeles-Long Beach ranked sixth on the list of cities with the worst short-term particle pollution, and fourth for year-round particle pollution.

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