Strong mediators of social inequalities in risk of ischaemic heart disease: a six-year follow-up in the Copenhagen Male Study | Zendy

Poul Suadicani | Zendy; Hans Ole Hein | Zendy; Finn Gyntelberg | Zendy

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Strong mediators of social inequalities in risk of ischaemic heart disease: a six-year follow-up in the Copenhagen Male Study

Author(s) -

Poul Suadicani,

Hans Ole Hein,

Finn Gyntelberg

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/26.3.516

Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , blood pressure , body mass index , risk factor , disease , lower risk , confidence interval , demography , physiology , sociology

Large social inequalities exist in risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in Western populations; inequalities which are only little accounted for by established risk factors. We wished to find out if some newly identified cardiovascular risk factors in concert with established factors might contribute further to the explanation.

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