Educational and Socioeconomic Inequality and Cardiovascular Risk in Peru: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Authors' conclusion
Higher educational attainment was independently associated with lower 10-year cardiovascular risk, whereas SES quintiles showed no association.
Study context
- Population
- Peruvian adults included in the 2023 Peruvian Demographic and Family Health Survey
- Participants
- 24,048 adults
- Exposure
- Secondary and higher educational attainment compared with no education
- Outcome
- High cardiovascular risk (≥10% 10-year risk, 2019 WHO risk charts)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Overall prevalence of high cardiovascular risk
4.7%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
| Outcome | OR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|
| High cardiovascular risk by educational attainmentSecondary vs none · adjusted · adjusted analyses | 0.42 (0.25–0.71) | |
| High cardiovascular risk by educational attainmentSuperior vs none · adjusted · adjusted analyses | 0.47 (0.30–0.73) | |
| 0.20.5125Odds ratio (log scale) |
High cardiovascular risk by educational attainment, by sex (subgroup)
- Inverse associations more pronounced among men; among women directionally similar but not statistically significant
High cardiovascular risk by socioeconomic status (SES) quintiles
- No independent association after adjustment for covariates
Original publication
Educational and Socioeconomic Inequality and Cardiovascular Risk in Peru: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. JACC Adv. Published 19 March 2026. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it