Influence of socioeconomic status and job control on plasma fibrinogen responses to acute mental stress

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 137-144

  Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Kunz Ebrecht, Sabine ^a   Owen, Natalie ^a   Feldman, Pamela J ^a   Rumley, Ann ^b   Lowe, Gordon D O ^b   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Vascular Medicine Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibrinogen; Job control; Social isolation; Socioeconomic status; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROL SYSTEM; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INCOME; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0037247143     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PSY.0000039755.23250.A7     Document Type: Article

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