Women's exposure to early and later life socioeconomic disadvantage and coronary heart disease risk: the Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study | Zendy

Sarah Wamala | Zendy; James Lynch | Zendy; George A. Kaplan | Zendy

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Women's exposure to early and later life socioeconomic disadvantage and coronary heart disease risk: the Stockholm Female Coronary Risk Study

Author(s) -

Sarah Wamala,

James Lynch,

George A. Kaplan

Publication year - 2001

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/30.2.275

Subject(s) - socioeconomic status , medicine , coronary heart disease , disadvantage , risk factor , framingham risk score , coronary disease , epidemiology , demography , disease , gerontology , environmental health , population , sociology , political science , law

Measures of low socioeconomic position have been associated with increased risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) among women. A more complete understanding of this association is gained when socioeconomic position is conceptualized from a life course perspective where socioeconomic position is measured both in early and later life. We examined various life course socioeconomic indicators in relation to CHD risk among women.

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