Heart of the Problem: Meeting patients’ socioeconomic needs can improve cardiovascular risk factors
Patients enrolled in a program designed to help meet certain socioeconomic needs had modest but significant improvements in several key cardiovascular risk factors.
A study by Harvard Medical School investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital in collaboration with Health Leads—a Boston-based organization that helps health care delivery organizations connect patients with local services—found that enrollment in the Health Leads intervention helped patients improve blood pressure and cholesterol levels.