Socio-economic differences in life expectancy among persons with diabetes mellitus or myocardial infarction: Results from the German MONICA/KORA study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Perna, Laura ^a   Thien Seitz, Uta ^b   Ladwig, Karl Heinz ^a   Meisinger, Christa ^a   Mielck, Andreas ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b City of Munich   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77951487893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-135     Document Type: Article

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