Can cardiovascular risk factors and lifestyle explain the educational inequalities in mortality from ischaemic heart disease and from other heart diseases? 26 year follow up of 50 000 Norwegian men and women

• Published in: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
• Main Authors: Strand, Bjørn Heine, Tverdal, Aage
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: British Medical Journal Publishing Group 2004
• Subjects: Research reports; Norway; Sogn; Oppland; Finnmark
• Online Access: http://jech.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/58/8/705; https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2003.014563

Objective: Investigate the degree to which smoking, physical activity, marital status, BMI, blood pressure, and cholesterol explain the association between educational level and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) mortality and other forms of cardiovascular mortality, with main focus on IHD mortality. Des...