The relationship between employment grade and plasma fibrinogen level among Japanese male employees

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 415-421

  Ishizaki, Masao ^a,b   Martikainen, Pekka ^a,c   Nakagawa, Hideaki ^b   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Population Research Institute   (Finland)

Author keywords

Educational background; Employment grade; Fibrinogen; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN A1C;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METAL INDUSTRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TOBACCO;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FIBRINOGEN; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0033863251     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(99)00414-1     Document Type: Article

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