Potential explanations for the educational gradient in coronary heart disease: A population-based case-control study of Swedish women

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 315-321

  Wamala, Sarah P ^a   Mittleman, Murray A ^b,c   Schenck Gustafsson, Karin ^d   Orth Gomér, Kristina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7; FIBRINOGEN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR INHIBITOR; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0033051173     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.89.3.315     Document Type: Article

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