Alcohol and coronary heart disease risk - Is there an unknown confounder?

Addiction

Volumn 100, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1150-1157

  Poikolainen, Kari ^a   Vahtera, Jussi ^b   Virtanen, Marianna ^b   Linna, Anne ^b   Kivimäki, Mika ^b,c  

^a Finnish Foundation for Alcohol Studies   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alcohol drinking; Confounding factors; Coronary disease; Psychosocial factors; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY RISK; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEISURE; LIFE EVENT; LIFE SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 23444437193     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2005.001126.x     Document Type: Article

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