Social class differences in secular trends in established coronary risk factors over 20 years: A cohort study of british men from 1978-80 to 1998-2000

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Ramsay, Sheena E ^a   Whincup, Peter H ^b   Hardoon, Sarah L ^a   Lennon, Lucy T ^a   Morris, Richard W ^a   Wannamethee, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OCCUPATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SECULARISM; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 79955934630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019742     Document Type: Article

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