Socioeconomic status and health-related quality of life after stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with stroke occurrence and survival following stroke but its association with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) following stroke remains uncertain. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the association between SES and HRQoL after stroke.

Methods: PubMed, SCOPUS, EMBASE, and Web of Science were searched to identify relevant cohort and case-control studies between January 2000 and May 2022.

Area-level and individual-level socio-economic differences in health-related quality of life trajectories: Results from a 10-year longitudinal stroke study.

Background: We examined area-level (aSES) and individual-level (iSES) socio-economic status on trajectories of HRQoL to 10 years following stroke.

Methods: Participants with strokes between 1/5/1996 and 30/4/1999 completed the Assessment of Quality of Life instrument (AQoL, range: -0.04 [worse than death] to 0 [death] to 1 [full health]) at ≥one of 3month, 6-month, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4-year, 5-year, 7-year and 10-year interviews after stroke.