How does socioeconomic development affect COPD mortality? an age-period-cohort analysis from a recently transitioned population in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Chen, Jing ^a   Schooling, Catherine Mary ^a   Johnston, Janice Mary ^a   Hedley, Anthony Johnson ^a   McGhee, Sarah Morag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHINA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENOPAUSE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SMOKING; SOCIAL ASPECT; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 80052856328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024348     Document Type: Article

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