Relationship of education to major risk factors and death from coronary heart disease, cardiovascular diseases and all causes, Findings of three Chicago epidemiologic studies.
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The relationship of education to risk factors at baseline and to long-term mortality from coronary heart disease (CHD), cardiovascular diseases (CVD), and all causes was analyzed for three cohorts of middle-aged employed white men in Chicago: 8047 from the Chicago Heart Association Detection Project in Industry (CHA) (entry 1967-1973), 1250 from the Peoples Gas Company Study (PG) (entry 1958-1959) and 1730 from the Western Electric Study (WE) (entry 1957-1958). Each man was classified into one of four groups: not a high school graduate, high school graduate, some college but not a graduate,
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Circulation
دوره 66 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1982