Education and inequalities in risk scores for coronary heart disease and body mass index: Evidence for a population strategy

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 657-664

  Liu, Sze Yan ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^a   Glymour, M Maria ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GRADUATE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CORONARY DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864871675     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318261c7cc     Document Type: Article

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