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(Circulation. 1996;94:2041-2044.)
© 1996 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Conference on Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Health and Disease

Claude Lenfant, MD

the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md.

	Introduction

 
The Conference on Socioeconomic Status (SES) and Cardiovascular Health and Disease, sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), was held in Bethesda, Md, November 6-7, 1995. This important meeting addressed a topic of great timeliness and interest to those of us who are concerned with public health in the United States.

Participants at the conference were given the following charge: (1) to review existing knowledge of biological, behavioral, and social factors related to SES variations in cardiovascular disease (CVD) morbidity and mortality and their trends, particularly with respect to minorities; (2) to identify scientific information that is ready for transfer to healthcare professionals and the public to improve the cardiovascular health of the country; and (3) to determine future opportunities and needs for research on SES factors and their relationships with cardiovascular health and disease.

A Chartbook of U.S. National Data on Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Health and Disease served as background to the conference. The product of more than 2 years of work by a number of distinguished nonfederal scientists and representatives of the NHLBI, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Health Care Financing Administration, the Chartbook is unique in its wealth of US national data about race-, sex-, and age-specific associations between SES and CVD.

The full text (no graphics) of the conference report is available on the NHLBI Gopher (gopher://gopher.nhlbi.nih.gov:70/1). A printed copy can be obtained from Judy Corbett, NHLBI, Bldg 31, Room 5A06, National Institutes of Health, 31 Center Dr, MSC . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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