Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) has been shown to have an association with patient health outcomes, including risk of hospital readmission. However, most SES data involve self-reported or aggregated information rather than objective individual measures. HOUSES provides an objective individual metric based upon real property data collected from county assessors that has been validated in other [...]

Background: The knowledge regarding the association between increased blood pressure variability (BPV) and risk of subsequent clinical outcomes following acute ischemic stroke is not entirely clear. We constructed a cohort of patients hospitalized for new AIS to examine the effect of systolic BPV (SBPV) on the risk of dependency at discharge and 1 year readmission [...]