Socioeconomic gradient in morbidity and mortality in people with diabetes: Cohort study findings from the Whitehall study and the WHO multinational study of vascular disease in diabetes

British Medical Journal

Volumn 316, Issue 7125, 1998, Pages 100-105

  Chaturvedi, Nish ^a,b   Jarrett, John ^a,b   Shipley, Martin J ^a,b   Fuller, John H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Clinical Epidemiology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032501688     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.316.7125.100     Document Type: Article

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