TABLE 2.

SVI and select components in patients with PPCM

Variable	More severe PPCM (n=56)	Less severe PPCM (n=34)	P value
SVI	0.51±0.30	0.31±0.28	.002
Socioeconomic	0.49±0.28	0.32±0.28	.005
Household composition and disability	0.51±0.29	0.35±0.26	.008
Minority status and languagea	0.49±0.29	0.46±0.33	.72
Housing type and transportation	0.54±0.31	0.34±0.28	.003
Proportion of population living in poverty	0.18±0.11	0.11 ±0.09	.003
Proportion unemployed (age ≥16 y)	0.10±0.06	0.07±0.04	.03
Per capita income (US dollars)	21261±6807	27719±10876	.003
Proportion of population with no high school diploma	0.19±0.09	0.13±0.09	.003
Proportion of single-parent households with children under 18 y	0.14±0.05	0.11±0.06	.02
Proportion of population of minority race	0.39±0.27	0.25±0.22	.02
Proportion of persons (age ≥5 y) who speak English “less than well”	0.01±0.01	0.02±0.03	.14
Proportion of housing in structures with ≥10 units	0.05±0.08	0.06±0.09	.73
Proportion of mobile homes	0.12±0.13	0.13±0.14	.91
Proportion of households with more people than rooms	0.02±0.02	0.01±0.02	.19
Proportion of households with no vehicle available	0.08±0.09	0.03±0.03	.0005
Proportion of persons in institutionalized group quarters	0.02±0.04	0.004±0.01	<.0001

PPCM, peripartum cardiomyopathy; SVI, Social Vulnerability Index.

^aIncludes proportion of the population of minority status and proportion of persons ≥5 years who speak English “less than well.”