Association of Lifecourse Socioeconomic Status with Chronic Inflammation and Type 2 Diabetes Risk: The Whitehall II Prospective Cohort Study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Stringhini, Silvia ^a   da Batty, G David ^b,c   Bovet, Pascal ^a   Shipley, Martin J ^b   Marmot, Michael G ^b   Kumari, Meena ^b   Tabak, Adam G ^b,d   Kivimäki, Mika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OCCUPATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84881235598     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001479     Document Type: Article

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