Coronary heart disease risk factors and regional deprivation in England: Does age matter?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 253-256

  Tabassum, Faiza ^a   Breeze, Elizabeth ^a   Kumari, Meena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH VISITOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LETTER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NURSE; OCCUPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY DISEASE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77949351065     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp205     Document Type: Letter

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