Heart transplant patients from deprived areas face higher risk for postoperative complications, earlier death

Heart transplant patients from deprived areas face higher risk for postoperative complications, earlier death

Heart transplant patients who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas are more likely to experience post-surgical complications and die within five years than patients who live in more advantaged areas, even when those patients were transplanted at topnotch high-volume hospitals, new UCLA research suggests.

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