The Gender Gap in Heart Disease: Lessons from Eastern Europe

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 768-770

  Weidner, Gerdi ^a   Cain, Virginia S ^b  

^a Preventive Medicine Research Institute   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPING BEHAVIOR; CORONARY RISK; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EASTERN EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK REDUCTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; RISK-TAKING; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0038317628     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.93.5.768     Document Type: Review

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