Social determinants of cardiac disease biomarkers: Investigating a Swedish male cohort at ages 50 and 70

European Journal of Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 523-533

  Khanolkar, Amal ^a,b   Vågerö, Denny ^a   Koupil, Ilona ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adiponectin; apolipoproteins; biomarkers; cardiovascular disease; cholesterol; HDL cholesterol; LDL cholesterol; socioeconomic position

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN B; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN;

ADIPONECTIN; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CAUSE OF DEATH; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LINEAR MODELS; LIPIDS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84865571527     PISSN: 20474873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741826711405952     Document Type: Article

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