Twelve-year trends in cardiovascular disease risk factors in the Minnesota heart survey: Are socioeconomic differences widening?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 873-881

  Iribarren, Carlos ^a   Luepker, Russell V ^a   McGovern, Paul G ^a   Arnett, Donna K ^a   Blackburn, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 0031396555     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.8.873     Document Type: Article

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