Cardiovascular risk factors differ between rural and urban Sweden: The 2009 Northern Sweden MONICA cohort

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lindroth, Martin ^a   Lundqvist, Robert ^a   Lilja, Mikael ^a   Eliasson, Mats ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular; Cholesterol; Cohort; Risk factors; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SWEDEN; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84906927278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-825     Document Type: Article

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