Attained educational level and incident atherothrombotic events in low-and middle-income compared with high-income countries

Circulation

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1167-1175

  Goyal, Abhinav ^a,b   Bhatt, Deepak L ^c   Steg, P Gabriel ^d   Gersh, Bernard J ^e   Alberts, Mark J ^f   Ohman, E Magnus ^g   Corbalán, Ramón ^h   Eagle, Kim A ⁱ   Gaxiola, Efrain ^j   Gao, Runlin ^k   Goto, Shinya ^l   D'Agostino, Ralph B ^m   Califf, Robert M ^g   Smith, Sidney C ⁿ   Wilson, Peter W F ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^j HOSPITAL DE ESPECIALIDADES   (Mexico)

^k FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

^l TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^m BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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Author keywords

cardiovascular diseases; epidemiology; registries; risk factors; smoking

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATHEROTHROMBOSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCOME; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; REGISTER; SELF REPORT; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STROKE; THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL CLASS;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 77957282609     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.919274     Document Type: Article

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