Explaining the social patterning of lung function in adulthood at different ages: The roles of childhood precursors, health behaviours and environmental factors

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 905-911

  Gray, Linsay A ^a   Leyland, Alastair H ^a   Benzeval, Michaela ^a   Watt, Graham C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE STRUCTURE; CROSS SECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VOLUME;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY DI; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

AGEING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; RESPIRATORY DI; SMOKING; SOCIAL INEQUALITIES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AIR POLLUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SCOTLAND; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885388261     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-201704     Document Type: Article

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