How income and education contribute to risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the elderly in a former Communist country

Public Health

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 439-449

  Stelmach, Wlodzimierz ^a   Kaczmarczyk Chałas, Krystyna ^a   Bielecki, Wojciech ^a   Stelmach, Iwona ^b   Drygas, Wojciech ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^b M Curie Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease risk factors; Countrywide integrated non communicable diseases intervention; Elderly; Poland; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ELDERLY POPULATION; INCOME; RISK FACTOR;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CITY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POLAND; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; WIDOW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMMUNISM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; POLAND; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LODZ; LODZKIE; POLAND;

EID: 4344677044     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2003.12.012     Document Type: Article

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