Socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk factors in the Czech Republic

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-52

  Bobak, Martin ^a   Hertzman, Clyde ^b   Skodova, Zdenka ^c   Marmot, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Eastern Europe; Epidemiology; Risk factors; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CROWDING; CZECH REPUBLIC; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

EID: 0345491008     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.1.46     Document Type: Article

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