Spousal Smoking and Incidence of First Stroke. The Health and Retirement Study

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 245-248

  Glymour, M Maria ^a,b   DeFries, Triveni B ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Avendano, Mauricio ^c  

^a Mailman School of Public Health   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART DISEASE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; RACE; SPOUSE; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SPOUSES; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48649097363     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2008.05.024     Document Type: Article

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