Educational Attainment and Cardiovascular Risk—A Missed Opportunity?—Reply
Jared W. Magnani,
Norrina B. Allen
Abstract:COMMENT & RESPONSEIn Reply We appreciate the thoughtful attention provided by Veronesi and colleagues to our article assessing the lifetime risk between educational attainment and cardiovascular disease. 1 We would foremost urge caution when considering standardization of race-specific percentiles of education as suggested by our colleagues here. Such an approach effectively normalizes vast historical inequities in educational attainment perpetuated by social policy in the US. The legacy and continued perpet… Show more
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