WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Among Black Medicare beneficiaries, historical redlining, a marker of structural racism, is associated with heart failure risk, according to a study published online July 17 in Circulation.
Amgad Mentias, M.D., from the Cleveland Clinic, and colleagues examined the association of redlining with the risk for heart failure among White and Black Medicare beneficiaries. The Mapping Inequality Project was used within each ZIP code to determine ZIP code-level redlining by the proportion of historically redlined areas. The association between higher ZIP code redlining proportion and heart failure risk was assessed separately among White and Black Medicare beneficiaries.