Coronary heart disease risk factors in employees of Iowa's Department of Public Safety compared to a cohort of the general population

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 733-737

  Franke, W D ^a,c   Cox, D F ^b   Schultz, D P ^a   Anderson, D F ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

^c 247 PEB ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular disease; epidemiology; occupation; police; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLICE; POPULATION RISK; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0030897718     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199706)31:6<733::AID-AJIM10>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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