Social Vulnerability Is Associated With Higher Rates of Hospitalizations and Amputations for Peripheral Arterial Disease

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Electronic address: Khanjan.Shah@medicine.ufl.edu.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
³ Division of Vascular Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
⁴ Department of Anthropology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
⁵ Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
⁶ Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Khanjan B Shah et al. Am J Cardiol. 2023.

. 2023 Sep 15:203:463-465.

doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2023.07.063. Epub 2023 Aug 4.

¹ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Electronic address: Khanjan.Shah@medicine.ufl.edu.
² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
³ Division of Vascular Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
⁴ Department of Anthropology, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
⁵ Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes & Policy, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
⁶ Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

No abstract available

Keywords: amputation; disparities; peripheral arterial disease; social vulnerability index.

Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no competing interests to declare.