Arrhythmias & electrophysiology
An Evaluation of Social Determinants of Health in Atrial Fibrillation Research, From 2014 to 2024
Authors' conclusion
While nearly all studies reported age and gender, a smaller fraction reported and analyzed race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic characteristics.
Study context
- Population
- Atrial fibrillation (AF) randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in PubMed from 10 high-impact journals over the last decadeof 323 RCTs
- Participants
- 240 rcts
- Outcome
- SDH reporting and analysis in AF RCTs
Methodological details10 high-impact journals, single reviewer
- 10 high-impact journals
- Single reviewer
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
SDH reporting and analysis
- Reported age
- 99.6%
- Reported gender
- 98.8%
- Analysed age
- 56.3%
- Analysed gender
- 49.2%
- Reported or analysed race and ethnicity
- Less than 33%
- Addressed socioeconomic characteristics
- fewer than 10%
Further pooled results
Predictors of social determinants of health (SDH) characteristics
- More participants and behavioural or pharmaceutical interventions: greater odds of analysing age and gender
- North American location and higher enrolment: greater odds of reporting and analysing race
- Year of publication associated with analysing age and race
Original publication
An Evaluation of Social Determinants of Health in Atrial Fibrillation Research, From 2014 to 2024. JACC Adv. Published 16 September 2025. doi:10.
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