Association of Socioeconomic Status With Functional Capacity, Heart Rate Recovery, and All-Cause Mortality
JAMAPublished 14 February 2006
Mehdi H. Shishehbor
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Impaired functional capacity and abnormal heart rate recovery were strongly associated with lower SES and accounted for a major proportion of the correlation between S ES and mortality.
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Impaired functional capacity and abnormal heart rate recovery were strongly associated with lower SES and accounted for a major proportion of the correlation between SES and mortality. Efforts to modify these clinical features among patients with low SES may narrow disparities in mortality.
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