Relationship between socioeconomic status and ischaemic heart disease in cohort and case-control studies: 1960-1993
Author(s) -
Maurício González
Publication year - 1998
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/27.3.350
Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , demography , ischaemic heart disease , confounding , cohort study , cohort , odds ratio , gerontology , social class , disease , population , environmental health , sociology , political science , law
Much of the information on the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) comes from ecological, cross-sectional and longitudinal mortality studies. Such studies may present methodological problems which affect cohort studies and case-control studies to a lesser degree.
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