Individual social class, area-based deprivation, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and mortality: the Renfrew and Paisley study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 399-405

  Davey Smith, George ^a   Hart, Carole ^b   Watt, Graham ^b   Hole, David ^b   Hawthorne, Victor ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLASS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CULTURAL DEPRIVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

PAISLEY; RENFREW; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0031785913     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.6.399     Document Type: Article

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