Political changes and trends in cardiovascular risk factors in the Czech Republic, 1985-92

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 272-277

  Bobak, Martin ^a   Skodova, Zdenka ^b   Pisa, Zbynek ^b   Poledne, Rudolf ^b   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CZECH REPUBLIC; DEREGULATION; EASTERN EUROPE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOLOGY; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; SMOKING; SOCIETY;

EID: 0030809066     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.51.3.272     Document Type: Article

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