Socioeconomic status and trends in risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in the Danish MONICA population, 1982-1992

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 108-113

  Osler, Merete ^a   Gerdes, Lars Ulrik ^a   Davidsen, Michael ^a   Bønnum Hansen, Henrik ^a   Madsen, Mette ^a   Jørgensen, Torben ^b   Schroll, Marianne ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^b Copenhagen County Centre of Preventive Medicine ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DENMARK; EATING HABIT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

DENMARK;

EID: 0033967113     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.54.2.108     Document Type: Article

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