Contextual effects of social fragmentation and material deprivation on risk of myocardial infarction--results from the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program (SHEEP) | Zendy

Maria Kölegård Stjärne | Zendy

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Contextual effects of social fragmentation and material deprivation on risk of myocardial infarction--results from the Stockholm Heart Epidemiology Program (SHEEP)

Author(s) -

Maria Kölegård Stjärne

Publication year - 2004

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/dyh087

Subject(s) - social deprivation , townsend , demography , quartile , socioeconomic status , medicine , relative risk , gerontology , confounding , epidemiology , population , myocardial infarction , context (archaeology) , social class , environmental health , confidence interval , geography , sociology , political science , law , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , economics , economic growth

Socioeconomic deprivation has been suggested as a contextual feature of importance for cardiovascular disease and mortality, whereas the effect of social fragmentation has largely been studied in relation to suicide. In this study we examine the contextual effects of social fragmentation and material deprivation on the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI).

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