Are risk factors for atherothrombotic disease associated with back pain sickness absence? The Whitehall II study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 197-203

  Hemingway, Harry ^a   Shipley, Martin ^a   Stansfeld, Stephen ^a   Shannon, Harry ^a   Frank, John ^a   Brunner, Eric ^a   Marmot, Michael ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; FIBRONECTIN; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROMATOSIS; BACKACHE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033022672     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.53.4.197     Document Type: Article

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