Socioeconomic status and health: Is parasympathetic nervous system activity an intervening mechanism?

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 309-315

  Sloan, Richard P ^a,b,c   Huang, Mei Hua ^d   Sidney, Stephen ^e   Liu, Kiang ^f   Williams, O Dale ^g   Seeman, Teresa ^d  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Community study; Parasympathetic nervous system; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RR INTERVAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HEART; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 18444411700     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh381     Document Type: Article

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