Marital status, intergenerational co-residence and cardiovascular and all-cause mortality among middle-aged and older men and women during wartime in Beirut: Gains and liabilities

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 64-76

  Sibai, Abla M ^a   Yount, Kathryn M ^b   Fletcher, Astrid ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intergenerational co residence; Lebanon; Living arrangement; Marital status; Mortality; Older adults; War and conflict

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; WAR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEBANON; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANTEL HAENSZEL TEST; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE MAN; SINGLE WOMAN; SOCIOECONOMICS; WAR; WIDOW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; LEBANON; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WAR;

ASIA; BEIRUT; BEYROUTH; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33751013023     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.08.006     Document Type: Article

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