Associations between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk factors in an urban population in China

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1296-1305

  Yu, Zhijie ^a   Nissinen, Aulikki ^a   Vartiainen, Erkki ^b   Song, Guide ^c   Guo, Zeyu ^c   Zheng, Gengwen ^c   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^b   Tian, Huiguang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c Tianjin Public Health Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases, epidemiology; China; Cross sectional studies; Risk factors; Socioeconomic factors; Urban population

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHINA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OCCUPATION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0033740208     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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