Individual- and area-level socioeconomic status variables as predictors of mortality in a cohort of 179,383 persons

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1047-1056

  Steenland, Kyle ^a   Henley, Jane ^b   Calle, Eugenia ^b   Thun, Michael ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Heart diseases; Mortality; Multilevel model; Social class

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASE;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 3142660635     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwh129     Document Type: Article

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