Developing a novel index for neighborhood social determinants of cardiovascular diseases in the CARDIA study

Authors

• Tao Gao, Northwestern University
• Yinan Zheng, Northwestern University
• Brian T Joyce, Northwestern University
• Lei Liu, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Lili Liu, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Catarina Kiefe, University of Massachusetts
• Sarah Forrester, University of Massachusetts
• Penny Gordon-Larsen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Chunyu Liu, Boston University
• Donald Lloyd-Jones, Boston University
• Kai Zhang, University of North Texas Health Science Center
• Lifang Hou, Northwestern University

Journal

Nature Communications

Publication Date

3-31-2026

Volume

17

Issue

1

First Page

4622

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1038/s41467-026-70741-4

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Gao, T., Zheng, Y., Joyce, B.T. et al. Developing a novel index for neighborhood social determinants of cardiovascular diseases in the CARDIA study. Nat Commun 17, 4622 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70741-4 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Gao, Tao; Zheng, Yinan; Joyce, Brian T; Liu, Lei; Liu, Lili; Kiefe, Catarina; Forrester, Sarah; Gordon-Larsen, Penny; Liu, Chunyu; Lloyd-Jones, Donald; Zhang, Kai; and Hou, Lifang, "Developing a novel index for neighborhood social determinants of cardiovascular diseases in the CARDIA study." Nature Communications. 17, 1. 4622 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7145

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