Biological and behavioural explanations of social inequalities in coronary heart disease: The Whitehall II study

Diabetologia

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1980-1988

  Marmot, M G ^a   Shipley, M J ^a   Hemingway, H ^a   Head, J ^a   Brunner, E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Diet; Epidemiology; Inequality; Inflammatory markers; Metabolic syndrome; Physical activity; Smoking; Socioeconomic position

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MORPHOMETRICS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY DISEASE; DIASTOLE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LONDON; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SYSTOLE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 53549128080     PISSN: 0012186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00125-008-1144-3     Document Type: Article

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