Trends in cardiovascular disease biomarkers and their socioeconomic patterning among adults in the Scottish population 1995 to 2009: Cross-sectional surveys

BMJ Open

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Hotchkiss, Joel William ^a   Davies, Carolyn Anne ^a   Gray, Linsay ^a   Bromley, Catherine ^b   Capewell, Simon ^c   Leylan, Alastair ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Centre for Social Research   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84863652259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2011-000771     Document Type: Article

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