Do changes in cardiovascular risk factors explain the increasing socioeconomic difference in mortality from ischaemic heart disease in Finland?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 416-419

  Vartiainen, Erkki ^a   Pekkanen, Juha ^a   Koskinen, Seppo ^a   Jousilahti, Pekka ^a   Salomaa, Veikko ^a   Puska, Pekka ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE RISK; ISCHAEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS;

FINLAND;

EID: 0031825009     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.52.7.416     Document Type: Article

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