People often say that your ZipCode is your destiny. This assertion is borne out yet again in “Influence of Neighborhood Conditions on Recurrent Hospital Readmissions in Patients with Heart Failure: A Cohort Study” by Shootman et al. In this video, Joseph S. Alpert, MD, editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Medicine, talks about the affect of living in impoverished neighborhoods. Where you live can dramatically increase your risk for disease — particularly hypertension and diabetes — and your risk for hospital readmissions. This article is in the September 2022 issue of The American Journal of Medicine which is available on our website amjmed.com.
