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Clustering of risk factors and social class in childhood and adulthood in British women's heart and health study
— cross sectional analysis | | Author(s) | Shah Ebrahim, David Montaner, Debbie A Lawlor |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 328, no 7444, 10 April 2004 |
| Pages | pp 861-863 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Life span ; Socio-economic groups ; At risk ; Cardiovascular diseases ; Correlation ; Cross sectional surveys. |
| Annotation | The British women's heart and health study comprises 2,936 women aged 50-79 randomly selected from GPs' lists in 23 towns. Risk factors were hypertension, obesity, smoking, left ventricular hypertrophy on electrocardiography, diabetes, and low concentration of high density cholesterols. Risk factors were more common in women from manual social classes in either childhood or adult life, and the co-occurrence of three or four risk factors was greater among more disadvantaged groups. Within the four socioeconomic groups, these risk factors occurred together more than would be expected from their individual frequency distributions, indicating that they were clustered. The extent of this clustering was similar in all four social groups. Clustering of risk factors included in the Framingham risk function equation occurs in all social class groups, but the lack of social patterning makes it unlikely that clustering is an explanation of socioeconomic inequalities in cardiovascular disease. As the proportion of women with co-occurrence of risk factors is greatest in those from manual social class in childhood, this measure of socioeconomic position might prove useful in risk prediction. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040507205 A |
| Classmark | BD: BG6: T4: CA3: CQ: 49: 3KB * |
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