Socio-economic status and cardiovascular risk factors in rural and urban areas of Vellore, Tamilnadu, South India

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1315-1327

  Samuel, Prasanna ^a   Antonisamy, Belavendra ^a   Raghupathy, Palani ^a   Richard, Joseph ^a   Fall, Caroline H D ^b  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birth cohort studies; CVD risk factors; India; Socio economic indicators

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BIRTH RATE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMIC SURVEY; URBAN AREA;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INDIA; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; TOBACCO; TREND STUDY; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIA; LIPIDS; MALE; RURAL POPULATION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; URBAN POPULATION;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU; VELLORE;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84864118097     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dys001     Document Type: Article

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