Risk factors for coronary heart disease among immigrant women from Iran and Turkey, compared to women of Swedish ethnicity

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-220

  Daryani, Achraf ^a   Berglund, Lars ^a   Anderson, Åsa ^c   Kocturk, Tahire ^d   Becker, Wulf ^b   Vessby, Bengt ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL FOOD ADMINISTRATION   (Sweden)

^c Department of Primary Health Care ^*  (Sweden)

^d Centre for Migration Medicine   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular factors; Health survey; Immigrants; Iranian; Middle East; Smoking; Swedish; Turkish; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; CHOLESTEROL; FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMIGRANT; IMMOBILIZATION; INCIDENCE; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; IRAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; LIPID ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASS SCREENING; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBESITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PULSE RATE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINALYSIS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IRAN; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN; TURKEY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 17644378086     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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