"A heart for Vienna" - The prevention program for the big city. Blue-collar workers as a special target group

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 156, Issue 19-20, 2006, Pages 552-557

  Dorner, Thomas ^a   Fodor, J George ^b   Allichhammer, Doris ^c   Kiefer, Ingrid ^a   Lawrence, Kitty ^a   D'Angelo, Monika Slovinec ^b   Huebel, Ursula ^d   Strunz, Barbara ^e   Ohnoutka, Annemarie ^e   Antes, Gernot ^d   Schmidt, Hannes ^d   Kunze, Michael ^a   Rieder, Anita ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Center for Occupational Medicine   (Austria)

^d Directorate for Health and Welfare Planning and Financial Management   (Austria)

^e Fonds Soziales Wien   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blue collar workers; Cardiovascular disease; Prevention; Risk factors; Screening

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BEHAVIOR; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLUE COLLAR WORKER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 33751332686     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10354-006-0340-3     Document Type: Article

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