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Heart Disease
Women's socioeconomic position and heart disease risk evaluated
October 6th, 2005
The relationship between women's socioeconomic position and heart disease risk was recently evaluated. Scientists in England recently conducted a study "To examine the associations of childhood and adult measurements of socioeconomic position with coronary heart disease (CHD) risk" They performed a "cross sectional and prospective analysis of a cohort of 4286 British women who were aged 60-79 years at baseline. Among these women there were 694 prevalent cases of CHD and 182 new incident cases among 13,217 person years of follow up of women who were free of CHD at baseline." D. A. Lawlor and colleagues wrote, "All measurements of socioeconomic...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-10-06)
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