Elfassy T, et al. - As part of the CARDIA study (Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults), researchers investigated correlations between income volatility, defined as the intraindividual SD of the percent change in income across five assessments from 1990 to 2005, and incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality in the following 10 years. This prospective cohort study was carried out within urban field centers in Birmingham, AL, Chicago, IL, Minneapolis, MN, and Oakland, CA. In 1990, 3,937 black and white participants (aged 23 to 35) were analyzed. Between 2005 and 2015, there were a total of 106 CVD events and 164 deaths. According to findings, income volatility and declines in income during a 15-year period of formative earning years were independently related to an almost 2-fold risk of CVD and all-cause mortality in a cohort of relatively young adults.