A registry-based follow-up study, comparing the incidence of cardiovascular disease in native Danes and immigrants born in Turkey, Pakistan and the former Yugoslavia: Do social inequalities play a role?

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hempler, Nana F ^a   Larsen, Finn B ^b   Nielsen, Signe S ^c   Diderichsen, Finn ^c   Andreasen, Anne H ^a   Jørgensen, Torben ^a  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Centre of Public Health   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PAKISTAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGISTER; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DENMARK; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PAKISTAN; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; SOCIAL CLASS; TURKEY; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 80052035402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-662     Document Type: Article

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