Open AccessAssociation of Lifecourse Socioeconomic Status with Chronic Inflammation and Type 2 Diabetes Risk: The Whitehall II Prospective Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Silvia Stringhini,
G. David Batty,
Pascal Bovet,
Martin J. Shipley,
Michael Marmot,
Meena Kumari,
Ádám G. Tabák,
Mika Kivimäki
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
plos medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.847
H-Index - 228
eISSN - 1549-1676
pISSN - 1549-1277
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001479
Subject(s) - medicine , socioeconomic status , type 2 diabetes , hazard ratio , confidence interval , prospective cohort study , cohort study , cohort , diabetes mellitus , incidence (geometry) , cumulative incidence , demography , gerontology , population , environmental health , endocrinology , optics , sociology , physics
Silvia Stringhini and colleagues followed a group of British civil servants over 18 years to look for links between socioeconomic status and health. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
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