Social ties and change in social ties in relation to subsequent total and cause-specific mortality and coronary heart disease incidence in men

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 700-709

  Eng, Patricia M ^a   Rimm, Eric B ^a,b   Fitzmaurice, Garrett ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Coronary disease; Incidence; Longitudinal studies; Men; Mortality; Social isolation; Social support

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; KINSHIP; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FATALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; RELIGIOUS GROUP; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOLOGY; SUICIDE;

ACCIDENTS; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY DISEASE; GRIEF; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; RISK; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037090090     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/155.8.700     Document Type: Article

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