Educational Level and Coronary Heart Disease: A Study of Potential Confounding from Factors in Childhood and Adolescence Based on the Swedish 1969 Conscription Cohort

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 336-342

  Falkstedt, Daniel ^a   Hemmingsson, Tomas ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confounding; Coronary Heart Disease; Educational Level; Explanation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCOME; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; WORK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953200486     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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