Migrating husbands and changing cardiovascular risk factors in the wife: A cross sectional study in Asian Indian women

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 881-889

  Gupta, Rajeev ^a   Gupta, Rajiv ^b   Agrawal, Aachu ^b   Misra, Anoop ^a   Guptha, Soneil ^a   Pandey, Ravindra M ^c   Misra, Puneet ^c   Vikram, Naval K ^c   Dey, Sanjit ^d   Rao, Shobha ^e   Usha Menon, V ^f   Kamalamma, N ^g   Revathi, K ^h   Mathur, Beena ^b   Sharma, Vinita ⁱ  

^a FORTIS HOSPITAL   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^c ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^e Agharkar Institute   (India)

^f AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^g GANDHIGRAM RURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^h Pondicherry Science Forum   (India)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GLUCOSE; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MARRIAGE; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; TOBACCO; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPOUSE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INDIA; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSES; URBAN POPULATION;

INDIA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84866024119     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2011-200101     Document Type: Article

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