Educational inequalities in the metabolic syndrome and coronary heart disease among middle-aged men and women

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 327-334

  Silventoinen, Karri ^a,b   Pankow, James ^b   Jousilahti, Pekka ^c   Hu, Gang ^a,c   Toumilehto, Jaakko ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Education; Metabolic syndrome

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

CORONARY DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 18444384841     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyi007     Document Type: Article

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