Are there differences in all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality between immigrants in Sweden and in their country of birth? A follow-up study of total populations

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gadd, Malin ^a   Johansson, Sven Erik ^a   Sundquist, Jan ^a   Wändell, Per ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIRTHPLACE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWEDEN; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLASSIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY DISEASE; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 33745009505     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-102     Document Type: Article

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