All-cause and cause-specific death rates by educational status for two million people in two American Cancer Society cohorts, 1959-1996

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-21

  Steenland, Kyle ^a   Henley, Jane ^b   Thun, Michael ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Mortality; Social class

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036642399     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwf001     Document Type: Article

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