Socioeconomic status, pathogen burden and cardiovascular disease risk

Heart

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1567-1570

  Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Shamaei Tousi, A ^b   Gylfe, A ^c   Henderson, B ^b   Bergstrom S ^c   Marmot, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CORONARY DISEASE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; LONDON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 36749040879     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2006.113993     Document Type: Article

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