Do biomarkers of stress mediate the relation between socioeconomic status and health?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 633-639

  Dowd, Jennifer Beam ^a,b   Goldman, Noreen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 6; NORADRENALIN; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

BIOMARKER; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TAIWAN; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAIWAN;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 33745817062     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.040816     Document Type: Article

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