Heart Attacks Trending Down, but Low-Income Communities Still Lagging Behind (IMAGE)

Yale University

Heart Attacks Trending Down, but Low-Income Communities Still Lagging Behind

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The rate of decline for heart attacks is similar regardless of economic status. But lower income communities with historically higher rates of heart attack hospitalizations still have not caught up.

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