Health care in the United States has seen many great innovations and successes in the past
decades. However, to this day, the color of a person's skin determines—to a considerable …

Aim Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the leading causes of mortality
worldwide, and several studies have indicated the association between socioeconomic …

Background: Black adults experience a disproportionately higher burden of cardiovascular
risk factors and disease in comparison with White adults in the United States. Less is known …

Background Social and environmental factors play an important role in the rising health care
burden of cardiovascular disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

SGLT2 inhibitors show promising cardio-protection in the diabetic populace. However, the
defending effect of SGLT2 inhibition in diabetes-associated cardiac complications and the …

Importance As a financial hardship, negative wealth shock has been implicated in some
adverse health outcomes. However, associations between negative wealth shock and …

Background: Food environment factors contribute to cardiovascular disease, but their effect
on population-level heart failure (HF) mortality is unclear. Methods: We utilized the National …

Despite decades of social epidemiologic research, health inequities remain pervasive and
ubiquitous in Canada and elsewhere. One reason may be our use of socioeconomic …

Background The association between stock volatility and cardiovascular diseases (CVD)
was described during the 2008 Global Stock Market Crash; however, whether the finding in …

This paper presents a mixed-methods study of app-based motorcycle taxis in Thailand to
explore the social dynamics of rideshare drivers and their exercised autonomy both through …