INTRODUCTION In developed countries socioeconomic status has been proven to be an important factor in the progression of cardiovascular disease. The present article reports the results of a cross-sectional assessment to investigate the association between socioeconomic status and cardiovascular risk factors in a Chinese urban population. METHODS In 1996, a behavioural risk factor survey was c...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To analyse if socioeconomic characteristics in area of living affect the risk of myocardial infarction in a Swedish urban population, and to evaluate to what extent the contextual effect is confounded by the individual exposures. DESIGN A population based case-referent study (SHEEP). SETTING Cases (n=1631) were all incident first events of myocardial infarction during 1992-1...

Although socioeconomic status (SES) has long been recognized as a principal determinant of health, one factor yet to be considered in the context of SES and health is the role of sleep. Individuals of lower socioeconomic status have been found more likely to experience sleep disorders, 1 and sleep disturbances have been associated with poorer health. 2 The amount of sleep people get has been fo...

INTRODUCTION Nowadays, Buerger's disease (BD) is more common in the developing countries of Asia. Although its prevalence is going to decrease in the developed countries, its decline rate is not in parallel with that for smoking in these countries. Since the number of BD patients reported to MVasRc is increasing annually and its pathogenesis is unknown, the aim of the study was to investigate t...

BACKGROUND Vital exhaustion has been shown to be a significant risk factor contributing to coronary heart disease, as well as a predictor of a worse prognosis among coronary patients. Socioeconomic differences in vital exhaustion may be part of the causal mechanism in the health and mortality inequalities connected with socioeconomic disadvantage. Our aim was to explore socioeconomic inequaliti...

Neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation has been associated with health behaviors and outcomes. However, neighborhood socioeconomic status has been measured inconsistently across studies. It remains unclear whether appropriate socioeconomic indicators vary over geographic areas and geographic levels. The aim of this study is to compare the composite socioeconomic index to six socioeconomic indic...

This study aims at determining the oral health awareness level, attitude, knowledge, behavior, pattern of dental health practice and consent towards their dental treatment as well as to evaluate the factors that determine these variables and their association with socioeconomic status. School children of age 8-15 years were recruited for this study. They are divided into two groups: high socioe...

Background: The literature on Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) have shown worse than expected health of the members of racial and ethnic minority groups particularly Blacks. Theoretically, this effect can be in part due to weaker effects of educational attainment on preventive care and disease management in highly educated racial and ethnic minorities. Object...