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The objective of our analysis was to evaluate the relationship between access to employer-based paid time off and the risk of incident CVD events in a sample of working older adults in the United States.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our sample consisted of 5604 persons aged 50 years and older from the 2010 and 2016 longitudinal prospective cohorts of the Health and Retirement Study, a nationwide US sample. Our exposure was whether participants had access to employer-based paid time-off benefits at baseline. Our outcome was incident CVD events, including myocardial infarctions, strokes, and transient ischemic attacks. We compared rates of CVD events among persons with and without benefits.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>81.5% of our sample had paid time-off benefits. In adjusted models, persons with access to paid time-off benefits had a 32% lower risk of a CVD event over 6\u201314 years (mean: 7.5 years) of follow-up (hazard ratio: 0.68; 95% CI: 0.49, 0.94).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Paid time-off benefits were associated with a reduced risk of CVD events among older adults in the United States.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/haschl\/qxag134","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,28]],"date-time":"2026-05-28T11:44:06Z","timestamp":1779968646000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Paid time off and cardiovascular disease events: the Health and Retirement Study, 2010\u20132022"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"4","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5858-8247","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Samuel 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