With funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers looked at data from more than 27,000 adults to understand what contributes to substantially higher rates of cardiovascular mortality among the nearly 60 million U.S. adults living in rural areas compared to their urban counterparts. The study found substantial rural-urban disparities in cardiometabolic risk factors and cardiovascular diseases, which were largest among younger adults (aged 20-39 years) and almost entirely explained by social risk factors.
