A prospective study of social networks in relation to total mortality and cardiovascular disease in men in the USA

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-251

  Kawachi, Ichiro ^a,c   Colditz, Graham A ^b   Ascherio, Alberto ^a   Rimm, Eric B ^a   Giovannucci, Edward ^b   Stampfer, Meir J ^a   Willett, Walter C ^a  

^a CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SUICIDE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; TOTAL MORTALITY;

USA;

EID: 0029662374     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.50.3.245     Document Type: Article

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