Cardiovascular risk factor levels in a lower middle-class community in Ankara, Turkey

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 660-667

  Tezcan, S ^a   Altintas H ^a   Sonmez R ^a   Akinci, A ^b   Dogan B ^a   Cakir B ^a   Bilgin, Y ^b   Klor H U ^b   Razum, Oliver ^c,d  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d Dept of Trop Hyg/Public Health ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Health transition; Prevention; Risk factor; Turkey

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; RISK FACTOR; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SAMPLE SIZE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING HABIT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URBAN AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; TURKEY; URBAN HEALTH;

TURKEY;

ANKARA;

EID: 0037560212     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01057.x     Document Type: Article

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