The goal of economic interventions and societal policies, such as improving employment, health care access, and education, is that they will lead to improvements in health for everyone. However, our study found that improvements in these socioeconomic interventions may not benefit people in all racial or ethnic groups equally.”

The researchers suggest that additional factors, including psychosocial stress experienced by people in different groups due to racism, medical mistrust, and/or unequal access to care, may also drive cardiovascular health inequities.

This study assessed the measures of socioeconomic status with the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 metrics of ideal heart health across racial and ethnic groups in the United States using the diverse, nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2011-2018) data for about 13,500 adults.

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The analysis found that across all participants, higher socioeconomic status was linked with better heart health, as indicated by higher average Life’s Essential 8 scores, which has a 0-100 scale. However, this link was greatest among white adults compared to people in other racial and ethnic groups. For example:

• College education was associated with a 15-point increase in ideal heart health score among white adults, compared to about a 10-point increase in ideal health scores for Black and Hispanic adults and about an 8-point increase among Asian adults.
• Medicaid versus private health insurance was associated with a 13-point decline in Life Essential’s 8 scores among white adults, compared to a 5- to 6-point decline for people in other racial and ethnic groups.

The study had several limitations, including that it could not prove cause and effect between socioeconomic status and Life’s Essential 8 scores. It also did not include information about the potential effects of wealth or racism over time; data was based on self-reported information; and the study did not differentiate between country of birth or immigration status.