Marital status and mortality in middle-aged Swedish men

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 54-64

  Rosengren, Annika ^a   Wedel, Hans ^b   Wilhelmsen, Lars ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Marriage; Mortality; Social environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; DIVORCE; FATALITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SWEDEN;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIFFERENTIAL MORTALITY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EUROPE; HUMAN RESOURCES; MARITAL STATUS; MORTALITY--MEN; NORTHERN EUROPE; NUPTIALITY; OCCUPATIONAL STATUS; OCCUPATIONS; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCANDINAVIA; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; DIVORCE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGE; MORTALITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SWEDEN;

EID: 0024592073     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115124     Document Type: Article

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