Gender, the marital life course, and cardiovascular disease in late midlife

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 639-657

  Zhang, Zhenmei ^a   Hayward, Mark D ^b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Event history analysis; Health; Life course; Marital status; Midlife

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745783310     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2006.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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