Open AccessWork–Family Trajectories and the Higher Cardiovascular Risk of American Women Relative to Women in 13 European Countries
Author(s) -
Karen van Hedel,
Iván MejíaGuevara,
Mauricio Avendaño,
Erika L. Sabbath,
Lisa F. Berkman,
Johan P. Mackenbach,
Frank J. van Lenthe
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2016.303264
Subject(s) - relative risk , demography , medicine , gerontology , stroke (engine) , work (physics) , confidence interval , sociology , mechanical engineering , engineering
To investigate whether less-healthy work-family life histories contribute to the higher cardiovascular disease prevalence in older American compared with European women.