Overview

• Average age at first hospitalization was 60.1 for Black patients, 65.4 for Hispanic patients, 70.6 for Asian American patients, and 73.6 for white patients.
• The analysis drew on more than 42,000 patient records from 713 U.S. hospitals in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines—Heart Failure registry from 2016 to 2019.
• Statistical modeling associated earlier hospitalization with factors such as insurance status, area-level unemployment, and community education levels.
• The peer-reviewed paper was published September 1, 2025, in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and was funded by the American Heart Association (grant 24GWTGDRA1308856).
• Study authors urge earlier prevention and risk-factor screening in affected communities and call for linking patients to social resources through clinical practice.