Disparities in Geographic Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation in Los Angeles County

• Published in: Journal of the American Heart Association Vol. 11; no. 18; p. e026472
• Main Authors: Ebinger, Joseph E, Lan, Roy, Driver, Matthew P, Rushworth, Parker, Luong, Eric, Sun, Nancy, Nguyen, Trevor-Trung, Sternbach, Sarah, Hoang, Amy, Diaz, Jacqueline, Heath, Mallory, Claggett, Brian L, Bairey Merz, C Noel, Cheng, Susan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley 20.09.2022
• Subjects: Black individuals; Cardiac Rehabilitation; census tract; ethnic and racial minorities; Ethnicity; Health Services Accessibility; Hispanic or Latino; Humans; Los Angeles; Los Angeles - epidemiology; population density; Los Angeles; ethnic and racial minorities; population density; Black individuals; socioeconomic factors; Los Angeles; census tract; cardiac rehabilitation

Background Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is known to reduce morbidity and mortality for patients with cardiac conditions. Sociodemographic disparities in accessing CR persist and could be related to the distance between where patients live and where CR facilities are located. Our object...