Social class, all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality: The importance of cigarette smoking

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 285-287

  Kesteloot, Hugo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Divisie Voeding en Epidemiologie ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cigarette smoking; Education; Mortality; Poverty; Sex ratio; Social class

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; POVERTY; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0041564065     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.58.4.2005284     Document Type: Review

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