Cardiovascular mortality focusing on socio-economic influence: The low-risk population of Halland compared to the population of Sweden as a whole

Public Health

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 285-288

  Baigi, A ^a,b,e   Fridlund, B ^b,c   Marklund, B ^a,b   Oden A ^d  

^a Research and Development Unit   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d County Council Halland ^*

^e Public Health and General Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

CVD; Gender; Mortality; Socio economic status; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFFICE WORKER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN;

HALLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036743082     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ph.1900877     Document Type: Article

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