Impact of Social Vulnerability on Comorbid Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in the United States

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Examines racial and social disparities as related to cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. Utilizes 2015-2019 data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER) database to analyze mortality rates and 2014-2018 data from the CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to estimate the respective county-level social vulnerability index (SVI). Includes demographic breakdowns of mortality rates according to age, sex, race/ethnicity, and large metropolitan, medium small metropolitan, or micropolitan/noncore (nonmetropolitan) location.

Sarju Ganatra, Sourbha S. Dani, Ashish Kumar, et al.

Journal of American College of Cardiology: CardioOncology, 4(3), 326-337

09/2022

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Cancer · Cardiovascular disease · County-by-county data · Mortality · Rural-urban differences · Social determinants of health