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Studies from J.N. Arendt and co-researchers in the area of public health published

Published in Disease Risk Factor Week, April 27th, 2008

According to a study from Odense, Denmark, "It has often been debated the extent to which known risk factors explain socio-economic differences in health. While common in mortality studies, few studies of morbidity adjust for baseline health."

"In this study, we argue that there are sound reasons to do so, and examine whether a set of risk factors explain a larger part of social gradients in men and womens self-rated health (SRH) in Denmark when controlling for previous health.Methods:We use interval regression models on longitudinal survey data from 1990 and 1995 separately for Danish male and female workers aged 1859.Results:Large social gradients are found in SRH for...

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