Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Education mediates link between socioeconomics and CV risk factors
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, September 5th, 2005
"We assessed the associations of childhood socioeconomic position with cardiovascular disease risk factors (smoking, binge alcohol drinking, and being overweight) and examined the roles of educational attainment and cognitive functioning in these associations," researchers in United Kingdom report.
D.A. Lawlor and colleagues of the University of Bristol explained, "Data were derived from a cohort study involving 7,184 individuals who were born in Aberdeen, Scotland, between 1950 and 1956; had detailed records on perinatal...
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