BMJ 2021; 373 :n604 doi:10.1136/bmj.n604
- Analysis of data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and UK Biobank for association between socioeconomic status (SES) with mortality and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) concludes that “ unhealthy lifestyles mediated a small proportion of the socioeconomic inequity in health in both US and UK adults; therefore, healthy lifestyle promotion alone might not substantially reduce the socioeconomic inequity in health, and other measures tackling social determinants of health are warranted. Nevertheless, healthy lifestyles were associated with lower mortality and CVD risk in different SES subgroups, supporting an important role of healthy lifestyles in reducing disease burden.”
