Trends in cardiovascular risk factors across levels of education in a general population: Is the educational gap increasing? The Tromsø study 1994-2008

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 712-719

  Eggen, Anne Elise ^a   Mathiesen, Ellisiv B ^a,b   Wilsgaard, Tom ^a   Jacobsen, Bjarne K ^a   Njølstad, Inger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EDUCATION; HEALTH RISK; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; SMOKING;

EID: 84904355691     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2013-203428     Document Type: Article

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