Letter by schooling and leung regarding article, "the global cardiovascular risk transition: Associations of four metabolic risk factors with macroeconomic variables in 1980 and 2008"

Circulation

Volumn 128, Issue 18, 2013, Pages

  Schooling, C Mary ^a   Leung, Gabriel M ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INCOME; INFECTION; LETTER; MENTAL STRESS; NORTH AMERICA; NUTRITION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; POLICY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WESTERN EUROPE;

DENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; ORAL HEALTH;

EID: 84887049850     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.003075     Document Type: Letter

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