Associations of area based deprivation status and individual educational attainment with incidence, treatment, and prognosis of first coronary event in Rome, Italy

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-43

  Picciotto, Sally ^b   Forastiere, Francesco ^a,b   Stafoggia, Massimo ^b   D'Ippoliti, Daniela ^b   Ancona, Carla ^b   Perucci, Carlo A ^b  

^a ASL RM/E   (Italy)

^b Local Health Authority RME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY EVENT; EDUCATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RECANALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POVERTY AREAS; ROME; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 29744466490     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.037846     Document Type: Article

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