Adult socioeconomic position and the association between height and coronary heart disease mortality: Findings from 33 years of follow-up in the Whitehall Study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 628-632

  Langenberg, Claudia ^a   Shipley, Martin J ^a   Batty, G David ^b,c   Marmot, Michael G ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; CORONARY DISEASE; ENGLAND; GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 15744401897     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/2004.046219     Document Type: Article

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