Social Networks and Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in South Asians and Europeans in the UK

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-275

  Pollard, Tessa M ^a   Carlin, Leslie E ^b   Bhopal, Raj ^c   Unwin, Nigel ^b   White, Martin ^b   Fischbacher, Colin ^c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Social networks; South Asian

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNIC MINORITY; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PAKISTAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; ASIA, WESTERN; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0242350152     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355785032000136452     Document Type: Article

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