Jetzt ist es bewiesen: Lieber reich und gesund! Was nützt es den Armen, wenn sie krank sind? Orlando, Fla., Nov. 11 - Living in a low-income neighborhood increases the risk of death after a heart attack, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2003. "Patients living in neighborhoods with a high percentage of residents living below the poverty line had a death rate after heart attack 30 percent higher than those in the wealthiest neighborhoods," said lead author Cathryn Tonne, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in environmental epidemiology at Harvard's School of Public Health in Boston, Mass. (...) Co-authors are Joel Schwartz, Murray Mittleman, Steve Melly, Helen Suh and Robert Goldberg.