Living alone and cardiovascular health status in residents of a rural village of coastal Ecuador (The Atahualpa Project)

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 422-425

  Del Brutto, Oscar H ^a,b,d   Tettamanti, Daniel ^a,c   Del Brutto, Victor J ^b   Zambrano, Mauricio ^b   Montalván, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ESPÍRITU SANTO   (Ecuador)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICA KENNEDY   (Ecuador)

^c HOSPITAL LUIS VERNAZA   (Ecuador)

^d Air Center 3542   (United States)

Author keywords

Atahualpa; Cardiovascular health; Case control study; Ecuador; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECUADOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84884978087     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-013-0344-8     Document Type: Article

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