Does economic development contribute to sex differences in ischaemic heart disease mortality? Hong Kong as a natural experiment using a case-control study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Schooling, C Mary ^a   Lam, Tai Hing ^a   Ho, Sai Yin ^a   Mak, Kwok Hang ^b   Leung, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Department of Health ^*  (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PUBERTY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 39149124463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-32     Document Type: Article

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